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an unrequited passion for
Fernando; she perceives the attraction between Fernando and Bianca, and informs her brother. Through her sycophant, the Machiavellian villain D'Avolos, she works upon her brother's feelings of jealousy and outrage until he precipitates the final scene's violence that leaves both lovers dead ("lovers," though the affair between Fernando and Bianca is in fact never consummated physically). Caraffa joins them by taking his own life.
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gentleman, while he was hunting. Caraffa falls in love with her, and marries her. Yet the Duke's close friend
Fernando also falls in love with the new duchess; she rejects him at first, but eventually acknowledges similar feelings for him. Fiormonda, the widowed sister of Caraffa, has long suffered
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wrote that it is "disfigured by all the faults of which Ford was capable," while Ronald
Huebert called it "not a great play, but...a fertile one," and "Ford's most typical play." The play is, in one view, "the most puzzling of Ford's works," and in another, "a botched mess."
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and her ladies in waiting in
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in Ford's play. D'Avolos is a version of Iago; Bianca champions the cause of a courtier named
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The Later
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as the most likely year. A mention of "woman antics" in Act III may refer to the performance of Walter
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to the dramatist's works. The 1633 quarto contains prefatory poems, including one by
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The Tested Woman Plot: Women's
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Ford largely based the main plot of the play on the life of
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The Performance of Pleasure in English Renaissance Drama.
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Critics have varied in their reactions to the play.
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Thou cheat'st us, Ford: mak'st one seem two by art:
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208:refers to two of Ford's plays in a couplet in his
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346:Lincoln, NE, University of Nebraska Press, 1978.
332:Newark, DE, University of Delaware Press, 1998.
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444:'Tis Pity She's a Whore
74:The Shepherd's Paradise
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53:'Tis Pity She's a Whore
18:Love's Sacrifice (film)
16:For the 1914 film, see
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420:The Lover's Melancholy
146:The Compleat Gentleman
101:The Lover's Melancholy
512:William Shakespeare's
404:The Witch of Edmonton
210:Delights of the Muses
118:Queen Henrietta's Men
993:Beast with two backs
953:The Othello Syndrome
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744:(1998; ballet score)
1100:Goodnight Desdemona
328:Marapodi, Michele.
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253:Zimmerman, p. 161.
152:Critical responses
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265:The Wedding
158:T. S. Eliot
86:Publication
36:written by
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918:From Verdi
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525:Characters
316:References
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1076:Saptapadi
966:Paintings
673:Desdemona
568:Brabantio
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431:(1625–33)
392:John Ford
204:The poet
90:The 1633
77:by Queen
38:John Ford
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1036:Carnival
751:Bandanna
563:Roderigo
463:(1635–6)
175:Milanese
165:Synopsis
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