Tis Pity Critics Quotes

Question 1

Leech

Answer 1

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

Question 2

Littler

Answer 2

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

Question 3

Sonia Massai

Answer 3

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

Question 4

Julie Sanders

Answer 4

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

Question 5

Silverstone

Answer 5

‘The play emphasises the solipsistic oneness of their relationship’

Question 6

Mark Stavig

Answer 6

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

Question 7

G.B Harrison

Answer 7

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

Question 8

Feminists

Answer 8

Annabella’s choice to pursue an incestuous relationship is a submission to strict patriarchal society, not selfishness

Question 9

Martin Wiggins

Answer 9

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

Question 10

All Cantor

Answer 10

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

‘G and A’s love ‘destroys them’
Platonic love

Question 11

All Vincentelli

Answer 11

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

Cheek by Jowl’s ‘Tis Pity’ production:
‘breathless momentum’
‘like the best nightmares’

Question 12

All Abate

Answer 12

The women ‘die for their pursuits’

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

The final line is inaccurate