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The Adaptation of a Shakespearean Genre: Othello and Ford's Tis Pity She's a Whore

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Raymond Powell
Raymond Powell*
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The University of Reading
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O Thello's Popularity in the Early seventeenth century is indicated both by the frequency of its revival and by its influence over many of the dramatists of the period. It seems to have exerted a lasting hold over Ford's imagination, the effects traceable in three plays written at different stages in his career: The Queen, published anonymously in 1653 but now generally reckoned to be an early work, Love's Sacrifice (1633), and The Lady's Trial (1638). The extent and significance of the influence ofOthello on Love's Sacrifice has been much discussed. In the words of one commentator, “So close are the parallels with Othello in the middle scenes of the action that it is tempting to imagine that Ford wrote with a copy of the play at his side.

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Renaissance Quarterly , Volume 48 , Issue 3 , Autumn 1995 , pp. 582 - 592
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Copyright © Renaissance Society of America 1995

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