Tis Pity Critic Names

Question 1

‘Ford had a reverence for love and fidelity’ (faithfulness to a person, cause, or belief)

Answer 1

Leech

Question 2

‘Hippolita was a heroine and an early symbol of feminism’

Answer 2

Littler

Question 3

Annabella refashions herself ‘from whore to a tragic, elevated character’

Answer 3

Massai

Question 4

G and A ‘suffer not because of their sins but because of their lower social position’

Answer 4

Sanders

Question 5

‘The play emphasises the solipsistic oneness of their relationship’

Answer 5

Silverstone

Question 6

The title is ‘surely a deliberate assault on tender Puritan moral sensibilities’

Answer 6

Stavig

Question 7

‘Ford’s sympathies are clearly with the defiant, not the repentant sinner’

Answer 7

G.B.Harrison

Question 8

‘The things which most repeatedly divide them along class lines are sex and violence’

Answer 8

Wiggins

Question 9

‘Ford allows Giovanni to make an unusually spirited and eloquent defense of forbidden love’

Answer 9

Cantor

Question 10

The women ‘die for their pursuits’

Answer 10

Abate

Question 11

‘G and A’s love ‘destroys them’

Answer 11

Cantor

Question 12

‘What’s really upsetting is that Ford contrasts their pure love with societies moral corruption’

Answer 12

Vincentelli

Question 13

‘breathless momentum’

‘like the best nightmares’

Answer 13

Vincentelli

Question 14

‘men in their lives mislead them, abandon them or double-cross them’

Answer 14

Abate

Question 15

The final line is inaccurate

Answer 15

Abate