Tis Pity

Question 1

Sanders

Answer 1

Ford may have been highlighting the “plight of women” in his contemporary Caroline society

Question 2

Findlay

Answer 2

Annabella is constricted as a figure of desire and of sacrifice by the men around her

Question 3

Lisa Hopkins

Answer 3

The male dramatists who created these plays may in some ways resemble male anatomy lecturers clinically dissecting female corpses

Question 4

Lisa Hopkins question

Answer 4

Is it nature- what is inside our bodies- that makes us behave as we do or is it culture, the ways in which society perceives us?

Question 5

Brian Morris

Answer 5

The word blood occurs more than 30 times in the course of the play

Question 6

Quotation from Giovanni talking about Annabella

Answer 6

One soul, one flesh, one love, one heart, one all?

Question 7

Love, lust and desire linking with death

Answer 7

Love me or kill me, brother

Love me or kill me, sister

Question 8

Love, lust and desire linking with religion

Answer 8

Such lips would tempt a Saint

Question 9

Love, lust and desire linking with marriage

Answer 9

Marriage? Why, that’s to damn her! That’s to prove/ Her greedy variety of lust
The vows I made, if you remember well/ Were wicked and unlawful; ‘twere more sin/ To keep them than to break them

Question 10

Fate

Answer 10

My fate’s my god

Question 11

Fate

Answer 11

My fates my god

Lost, I am lost: My fates have doomed my death

Question 12

Heaven/ Stars

Answer 12

Beg heaven to cleanse the leprosy of lust/ That rots thy soul
Such a pair of stars/ As are thine eyes, would give life to senseless stones

Question 13

Annabella and Soranzo link: punishment

Answer 13

I alone might feel/ The torment of an uncontrolled flame!

Revenge is all the ambition I aspire; To that I’ll climb or fall: my bloods on fire

Question 14

Revenge

Answer 14

I fear/ You mean some strange revenge

Hang him, innocent

Question 15

Reference to virginity

Answer 15

My loss of womanhood
To live and die a maid
Who dies a virgin lives a Saint on Earth

Question 16

Final line of the play

Answer 16

Incest and murder have so strangely met./ Of one so young, so rich in Nature’s store/ Who could not say, ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore

Question 17

Oliver

Answer 17

Stronger stimulus was needed by 1630 if that audience was to be stimulated