'Tis Pity She's a Whore

Not to be confused with 'Tis a Pity She Was a Whore.

'Tis Pity She's a Whore
Title page from 1633 printing
Written byJohn Ford
CharactersFriar Bonaventura
A Cardinal
Soranzo
Florio
Donado
Grimaldi
Giovanni
Bergetto
Richardetto
Vasques
Poggio
Banditti (Bandit)
Officers
Annabella
Hippolita
Philotis
Putana
Date premieredbetween 1629 and 1633
Place premieredEngland
Original languageEnglish
GenreTragedy

'Tis Pity She's a Whore (original spelling: 'Tis Pitty Shee's a Who[o]re) is a tragedy written by John Ford.[1] It was first performed c. 1626[1] or between 1629 and 1633,[2] by Queen Henrietta's Men at the Cockpit Theatre. The play was first published in 1633, in a quarto printed by Nicholas Okes for the bookseller Richard Collins. Ford dedicated the play to John Mordaunt, 1st Earl of Peterborough and Baron of Turvey.

  1. ^ a b Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Ford, John" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 10 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 641–643.
  2. ^ Logan, Terence P.; Smith, Denzell S. (1978). The Later Jacobean and Caroline Dramatists. Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press. p. 141.