'tis Pity She's a Whore - Brossura

Ford, John

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0713650605 ISBN 13: 9780713650600

Casa editrice: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2003

Riassunto

Like Shakespeare's Juliet, Annabella, accompanied by her down-to-earth
nurse, is introduced to a series of suitors to her hand. Like Juliet,
she finds all of them unsatisfactory - and rightly so, for the audience
know that the nastiest of them is having an affair with her domineering
aunt. Like Juliet, Annabella is wooed by a sensitive and passionate
young man whose love she returns - but this young man happens to be her
own brother, Giovanni. When they consummate their love and she, to
avoid the scandal of extramarital pregnancy, agrees to marry her aunt's
lover, the tragic outcome is inevitable. John Ford, writing his
psychologically powerful and intellectually challenging tragedies in
the early years of King Charles I's reign, is a playwright of the first
rank, as 20th-century directors have shown both in the theatre and on
film.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Martin Wiggins is a Fellow of the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0713650605
• ISBN 13: 9780713650600
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 174
• Redattore: Wiggins Martin