Tis pity she's a whore

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When was Tis pity she's a whore published?	1633- and was first performed 1629-33
TP A03 Marion Lomaz	'Woman associated with dangerous sexual passions are controlled through mutilation of the body'
TP A03 Farr	Farr argues 'Ford is at some pains to show that the play is about a true and honest love not about perversion'
TP A03 Richard Madelaine	Richard Madelaine argues 'Annabella's bed is the site of both sin and it's punishment'
TP A03 Bangerjee	Bangerjee interpets dagger scene as a 'sacrifice' which 'partially cleanses Giovanni's corrupt society by destroying most of the agents of that corruption'
TP A03 Dorothy Farr	Dorothy Farr argues Annabella is a 'realist' and 'only she shows and understanding of the predicament they find themselves in'
TP A04 Class division	In 1633 there was no Feudal system. Social class was divided into three Upper class, middle class and bottom class
TP A02 Misogyny	'I hate thee and thy lust' Soranzo to Hippolita 'O if you could but master a little your female spleen' Vasques to H 'Here's the end of lust and pride' Richardetto in reaction of H's death 'Of one so young, so rich in nature's store, who could not say 'tis pity she's a whore'-The cardinal
TP A02 Virginity	'Your chaste and single life shall crown your birth:Who dies a virgin lives a saint on earth'- Richardetto to Philotis Used for Misogyny/Women/Virginity
Misogynistic views from both TP and WOB	Women are unable to keep secrets Women are fickle and changeable Women have loose morals and fall prey to lust and other sins if they are not controlled Rape was seen as a property crime-this makes WOB's challenges to authority shocking and rare.
TP A04 dagger scene context	The displaying of Annabella's heart at the end of the play reflects public executions in the seventeenth century when it was thought that the heart could reveal a criminals treachery.
TP WOB Misogyny A04 ST Jerome	St Jerome-one of the most well known anti feminist writer of the middle ages believed all the desires of the human body were sinful; sleeping, eating and particularly sex.
TP A03 Jane Smith	Jane Smith argues 'her body being reduced to the heart on the end of Giovanni's dagger is the ultimate symbol of her objectification by men. Used for Women/objectification/
WOB TP Comparison point Marriage	WOB is assertive and dominant in her marriages whilst Annabella is passive-one could argue this is why the Wife survives and Annabella dies
TP A03 Ming-hsui Chen	Ming-hsui Chen argues 'Giovanni remains subject to panoptic control in his initial attempt to constrain his incestuous desires, his application of God's principle in censoring himself, and at the end of the play his dual roles as the agent and object of God's vengeance on sexual offenders'-linked to when Gio kills Annabella for passionate nature. Used for Women/sex/corruption/religion
TP A03 Pricilla Martin	Pricilla Marin says 'Obession with female infidelity runs through these speeches' Use for Obession/Misogyny
Define infidelity	unfaithful to a spouse
TP A03 Ming-hsui Chen	Ming-hsui Chen argues that 'Giovanni is paradoxically marked as a target for God's vengeance because his actions are also motivated but his relentless obsession for Annabella Use for obsession/temptation
TP Obession	Obsession can be for revenge TP-Gio obsessive over Annabella Obsession for money, sex, land WOB
TP A02 Breaking Taboos	'For that i am her brother born, my joys be ever banished from her bed?' 'In thy corrupted bastard bearing womb?'
TP A03 Reviewer	'Annabella is less a living character than a moving target for misogynistic abuse, Hippolita is a stock mistress and Philotis a gracious silence'.
TP A03 Marion Lomax	Marion Lomax argues 'Women associated with dangerous sexual passions are controlled through the mutilation of their bodies'-Putana being punished by men is symbolic of patriarchal societies attept to control women who act on their desire.
TP A02 Incest	'If a young wench feel fit upon her let her take anybody father or brother all is one' 'For that i am her brother born my joys be ever banished from her bed?' 'To make our love a god and worship it' 'my fates have doomed my death' 'Such lips would tempt a saint'-Gio to Annabella
TP A02 Marriage	'Kneels' 'Love me or kill me brother'/'Love me or kill me sister'-like marriage vows
TP A02 Destiny/fate	'Tis my destiny that you must either love, or i must die'-Gio to Annabella
TP A02 Passion/deceit	'I have too long suppressed the flames that have almost consumed me' 'I have asked counsel of the holy Church, Who tells me i may love you and tis just'
TP A02 objectifying women	'That yielding thou hast conquered and inflamed' 'But hold myself in being king of thee'-sees her as land 'And shall the conquest of my lawful bed' Hippolita to Soranzo'
TP A03 Rowland Wymer, Webster	Rowland Wymer, Webster argues 'Giovanna clutches the bleeding heart, he thinks he possesses Annabella but in fact he's in a world of his own'
TP A02 Pride	'I have done, and in thy wilful flames/Already see thy ruin' 'Here's the end of lust and pride' 'I'd see whether i could love you'-Annabella to Soranzo
TP A02 Religion/heaven	'Learn to repent and die'-Soranzo to Hippolita 'Repentance son and sorrow for this sin'-friar to G 'For death waits on thy lust'-friar to G 'Beg heaven to clense the leprosy of lust that rots thy soul'
TP A02 Jealousy	'But you shall not wear it'-Giovanni to Annabella
TP A03 Zang Cheng Liu	Zang Cheng Liu argues in the 'Phallic woman' that 'women in Tis pity serve as tools or are objectified to fulfil men's desire'
TP A04 Women revenge tragedies	Women in revenge tragedies are constructed as objects of male desire but when they act on their own desires, they become objects of male disgust revealing male sexual anxieties and the fissures in patriarchal assumptions.

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