'Tis Pity She's a Whore

by John Ford

'Tis Pity She's a Whore: Genre 1 key example

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John Ford’s play 'Tis Pity She’s a Whore (published in 1633) is a Carolinian Revenge Tragedy. It is similar in style to its dramaturgical predecessors: the Elizabethan and Jacobian tragedies. The popularity of the revenge tragedy as a genre may be traced to Thomas Kyd’s 16th-century play The Spanish Tragedy.