‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore

Giovanni and Annabella love each other as a brother and sister should not, and John Ford built one of the boldest Jacobean tragedies around that fact. Set in Parma, the drama traces the deceptions, arranged marriage and violence that follow once the pair act on what they feel. Ford gives the lovers genuine eloquence while exposing the hypocrisy of those who condemn them, and that refusal to offer easy judgement is part of why the text remains a fixture on Renaissance drama syllabuses. What buyers should know: • A Jacobean tragedy by John Ford, set in seventeenth-century Italy • Concerns forbidden love, moral judgement and social hypocrisy • Regularly studied alongside Shakespeare and Marlowe on drama courses • Bloomsbury edition in English Intended for literature students, theatre readers and followers of Renaissance drama, and available from Boipoka.