Tis Pity A04

Question 1

Richard Burton

Answer 1

‘Wives are slippery, often unfaithful to their husbands’ 1616

Question 2

‘Doctor Faustus’

Answer 2

Christopher Marlowe
Early 1590s
Doctor Faustus sells his soul to the devil and after 24 years his soul is taken to hell

Question 3

Italy

Answer 3

Set in Italy so England’s politics could not be linked.

Question 4

Jacobean Theatres

Answer 4

Indoor playhouses, relatively small (seat around 700) and they were all ticket seats so they were expensive. For the aristocratic class

Question 5

Example of a theatre it was performed in

Answer 5

1661 at the Salisbury Court Theatre, first production with women actors
1620s-30s The Phoenix. An indoor, candle lit theatre with a wealthy audience

Question 6

‘The Duchess of Malfi’

Answer 6

John Webster

The Duchess is tortured by her brothers for remarrying, then strangled along with two of her children

Question 7

‘Cursed be anyone who lies with his sister’

Answer 7

Deuteronomy 27:22

Question 8

Deuteronomy 27:22

Answer 8

‘Cursed be anyone who lies with his sister’

Question 9

Puttana means…

Answer 9

whore in Italian

Question 10

Other gruesome plays that Ford’s audience would have seen

Answer 10

‘Women Beware Women’ by Thomas Middleton

‘The Changeling’ by Thomas Middleton and William Rowley

Question 11

Example of a masque

Answer 11

Wedding masque painting ‘Sir Henry Unton’

Question 12

The Four Humours

Answer 12

Different combinations of four different humours or body fluid (sanguine, choleric, phlegmatic and melancholic) would determine someone’s temperament/complexion (personality)

Question 13

The Four Humours: Melancholy

Answer 13

Robert Burton’s ‘The Anatomy of Melancholy’ lists atributes of melancholy such as ‘extreme passionate, prone to revenge, most violent in imaginations, wise, suspicious…’
These all describe Giovanni

Question 14

Marriage in the 17th Century

Answer 14

There was no divorce. Common law was strongly biased in favour of the husband/father