John Ford is known to have written numerous plays during the reigns of James I (1603-1625) and Charles I (1625-1649), although only eight have survived. Their somewhat morbid and violent character speaks in part to the growing social tensions in the years before the English Revolution of 1640, which would lead to the execution of Charles nine years later."The Broken Heart" (written between 1625 and 1633) is laid in ancient Greece and its complex narrative revolves around Amyclas, k...

Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little PriceThe tragic story of incestuous love between Giovanni and his sister Annabella.When Annabella is found to be pregnant by her brother, she agrees to marry her suitor Soranzo. But when the lovers' incestuous secret is discovered, vengeance and bloody murder follow.John Ford's play 'Tis Pity She's a Whore was first performed in London between 1629 and 1633, and was first published i...

"’Tis Pity She’s a Whore" is perhaps the most popular and frequently performed play by John Ford, whom many scholars consider the last major dramatist of the English renaissance. The play was first published in 1633 and is a family drama with a plot line of incest. The play's title has often been changed in new productions, sometimes being referred to as simply "Giovanni and Annabella"."'Tis Pity She's a Whore" tells the tale of an incestuous love between Giovanni and his sister An...

John Ford (1586-1637) was an English playwright and poet whose interest in aberrant psychology helped him create very unique, and very successful works. After a period of major collaboration with various playwrights, from about 1621 to 1625, Ford began working independently; writing plays for theatrical companies like the King's Men at the Blackfriars. Following the literary reign of such figures as Jonson, Marlowe and Shakespeare, Ford felt the need to shock and intrigue audiences with ne...

A humorous look at President Trump's best insults and comebacks since taking officeLove him or hate him, our 45th and 47th president has changed the game on insults, quips, and news-worthy jabs in 140 characters or less. This book puts President Trump's most notable and no-nonsense comebacks, burns, and tweets on display for Trump supporters and dissenters alike."Why would Kim Jong-un insult me by calling me 'old,' when I would NEVER call him 'short and fat?'...

It is a historical phenomenon that while thousands of women were beingburnt as witches in early modern Europe, the English - although therewere a few celebrated trials and executions, one of which the playdramatises - were not widely infected by the witch-craze. The stageseems to have provided an outlet for anxieties about witchcraft, aswell as an opportunity for public analysis. The Witch of Edmonton(1621) manifests this fundamentally rea...

A visceral, revamped BBC radio production of John Ford's classic play about a doomed love between a brother and sisterWith its shocking portrayal of incest, intrigue and murder, this powerful Jacobean revenge drama scandalised audiences when it was first performed in the 1620s, and is still controversial today.When siblings Giovanni and Annabella embark on a passionate affair, Annabella falls pregnant with her brother's child. Knowing she must marry to prot...

The Broken Heart stands next to ‘Tis Pity She's a Whore as Ford's most popular drama. All is not right in Sparta because of, as is typical in this era of tragedies, the issue of marriage. In brief, Penthea wishes to marry Orgilus, but her brother Ithocles gets involved and bans them from doing so. He forces her to marry Bassanes, an abusive brute who happens to be wealthier than Orgilus. Ithocles then realises what he's done wrong and tries to get his friend Prophilus to marry Orgilus's si...

Contents: Plays by Ford- The Queen, The Lover's Melancholy, The Broken Heart, 'Tis Pity She's a Whore, Love's Sacrifice, The Chronicle of Perkin Warbek, Fancies Chaste and noble, The Lady's Trial Co-Written by Ford: The Laws of Candy, The Witch of Edmonton, The Welsh Embassador, The Spanish Gypsy, The Sun's Darling, The Fair Maid of the Inn, Non-Dramatic works: Funeral Elegye, A Line of Life, Christ's Bloody Sweat, Honor Triumphant, Shall I die?, The Golden Mean, Fame's Memorial Critical E...

We were created, designed, in Gods image, but God will always be a mystery to our minds, bound as they are by time and space. By attempting to achieve atonement with God, a state of harmony and oneness, we can realize our true purposesharing in the boundless love with which God has bequeathed us and with which he provided the spark for our evolution to begin. Our evolution continues as we move into the future, and we can no longer afford to let our faith and our thinking be influenced by a...

Like Shakespeare's Juliet, Annabella, accompanied by her down-to-earthnurse, is introduced to a series of suitors to her hand. Like Juliet,she finds all of them unsatisfactory - and rightly so, for the audienceknow that the nastiest of them is having an affair with her domineeringaunt. Like Juliet, Annabella is wooed by a sensitive and passionateyoung man whose love she returns - but this young man happens to be herown brother, Giovanni. When they ...

Retired Maine Game Warden John Ford has seen it all. He's been shot at by desperate prison escapees, been outwitted by wily trappers, and rescued scores of animals. As a tenacious and successful warden, he was always willing to spend the time needed to nab violators of the state's fish and game laws. At the same time, though, he wasn't a cold, heartless, go-by-the-book enforcer; he usually had a good quip ready when he slipped the handcuffs on a violator, and he wasn't above accepting a le...