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Tis Pity She's A Whore Professor Lisa Hopkins

Tis Pity She's A Whore By Professor Lisa Hopkins

Tis Pity She's A Whore by Professor Lisa Hopkins

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John Ford's tragedy "Tis Pity She's A Whore" was first performed between 1629 and 1633 and since then its themes of incest, love versus duty and forbidden passion have made it a widely studied and performed play. This guide offers students an introduction to its critical and performance history, including TV and film adaptations.

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Tis Pity She's A Whore: A critical guide by Professor Lisa Hopkins

A comprehensive introduction to John Ford's ??i??Tis Pity She's a Whore??i?? - introducing its critical history, performance history, the current critical landscape and new directions in research on the play. John Ford's tragedy ??i??Tis Pity She's A Whore??i?? was first performed between 1629 and 1633 and since then its themes of incest, love versus duty and forbidden passion have made it a widely studied and performed, if controversial, play. This guide offers students an introduction to its critical and performance history, including TV and film adaptations. It includes a keynote chapter outlining major areas of current research on the play and four new critical essays. Finally, a guide to critical, web-based and production-related resources and an annotated bibliography provide a basis for further individual research. ??i??Continuum Renaissance Drama??i?? offers practical and accessible introductions to the critical and performative contexts of key Elizabethan and Jacobean plays. Each guide introduces the text's critical and performance history but also provides students with an invaluable insight into the landscape of current scholarly research through a keynote essay on the state of the art and newly commissioned essays of fresh research from different critical perspectives.

Tis Pity She's A Whore Reviews

"A collection of many fine critical insights, these new essays should fuel discussion of 'Tis Pity for years to come." - Richard Abrams, Department of English, University of Southern Maine, USA
"Lisa Hopkins has long been an outstanding authority on John Ford. In this excellent critical guide she provides an accessible introduction, which lays out the complexities of classifying both Ford and his plays, a critical backstory of Tis Pity, which includes the reworking of aspects of the play in fiction and film, and an engaging essay on the social and civic use of Ford's stage. She has also collected a range of stimulating essays by accomplished academics that tackle some of the dominant issues of the period in original ways: incest, anatomy, and the survival of prohibited Catholic beliefs and practices in Protestant England. The volume also effectively summarises scholarship of the play since C17, its performance history, and recent critical research and theoretical approaches. The collection is particularly innovative in its inclusion of teaching resources and the variety of ways Tis Pity has been incorporated into university syllabi throughout the world. This is an essential text for anyone studying or teaching Tis Pity She's a Whore." - Professor Robyn Bolam, St Mary's University College, UK
"A noted authority on dramatist John Ford, editor Hopkins has assembled an outstanding collection of essays dealing with Ford's famous tragedy 'Tis Pity She's A Whore. Contributors summarize the performance history of the play since it was first preformed almost 400 years ago, and deal with issues the play raises, including incest, anatomy, and the survival of banned Catholic beliefs and practices in Protestant England. The editor herself contributes a critical backstory, which looks at how aspects of the play have been reworked in fiction and film, as well as an engaging essay on the social and civic use of Ford's stage." -Eithne O'Leyne, BOOK NEWS, Inc.

About Professor Lisa Hopkins

Lisa Hopkins is Professor of English at Sheffield Hallam University, UK.

Table of Contents

Series Introduction; Timeline of notable events and productions; Introduction, Lisa Hopkins (Sheffield Hallam University, UK); 1. The Critical Backstory, Lisa Hopkins (Sheffield Hallam University, UK); 2. Performance History, Kate Wilkinson (Sheffield Hallam University, UK); 3. The State of the Art - Current Critical Research, Sandra Clark (School of Advanced Study, University of London, UK); 4. New Directions: 'Fatal Attraction: Desire, Anatomy and Death in 'Tis Pity She's a Whore, Catherine Silverstone (Queen Mary, UK); 5. New Directions: Identifying the Real Whore of Parma, Corinne S. Abate (Morristown-Beard School); 6. New Directions: The Confessional Identities of 'Tis Pity She's a Whore, Gillian Woods (Wadham College, Oxford, UK); 7. New Directions: The Deconstructing 'Tis Pity?: Derrida, Barthes & Ford, Mark Houlahan (University of Waikato, NZ); 8. New Directions: 'Tis Pity She's a Whore and the Space of the Stage, Lisa Hopkins (Sheffield Hallam University, UK); Resources, Rhonda Lemke Sanford (Fairmont State University, UK); Notes on Contributors; Index.

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NPB9780826499325
9780826499325
0826499325
Tis Pity She's A Whore: A critical guide by Professor Lisa Hopkins
Professor Lisa Hopkins
Continuum Renaissance Drama Guides
New
Hardback
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
2009-11-19
208
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