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âPapists and poets of like conscience for fictionsâ: religion and responsibility in the plays of Shakespeare
âVenice in âTis Pity Sheâs a Whoreâ
The Caroline dramatist John Ford, like a number of his contemporaries and predecessors, shows a clear interest in Italy in a number of his works, and his most famous play, âTis Pity Sheâs a Whore, is set in Parma, and includes characters who have visited Livorno and Bologna. However at an early stage of the play, while Soranzo is still a suitor for Annabella, we see him alone âin his study, reading a bookâ, which he later tells us contains Jacopo Sannazaroâs encomium on Venice. Soranzo apparently both quotes from this and proposes a rewriting which would praise Annabella rather than Venice. However, the Revels note points out that the lines attributed to Sannazaro have not been identified, and indeed Sannazaro was in fact associated almost exclusively with Naples. This paper proposes some reasons for why Ford might refer to him in this context
âJane C. Loudonâs The Mummy!: Mary Shelley Meets George Orwell, and They Go in a Balloon to Egyptâ
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