v Tis Pity She’s a Whore

v Revenge

v Titus, white devil, othello, tis pity

v Jealousy

v Lust

v Assistant—vasquez and iago—4.1 Othello

v Intro

v Performed 1629-33

v Derivative from Othello—visionary erotic solipsists

v Marlovian overreacher

v Bloody denouement

v Incest

v Parma

v Reading notes

v 1.1—Friar and Giovanni

v *atheism and scepticism—customary form

v arg. For incest—miracle of wit—seeking absolution

v debate

v inner struggle—he’ll try for seven days to change his desires; otherwise its his fate

v 1.2—

v Grimaldi, a rival, fights Vasquez the servant of Soranza, who has father’s Florio’s consent to marry Annabella.

v Talkative Putana—Annabella thinks she’s drunk

v Bergetto a silly suitor—older brother—his money will buy her

v **Sees attractive man, turns out to be her brother—her inclination toward him; she fears he’s mad

v Giov. Cant resist his desire—his fate

v He courts her with conventional blazon to her beauty; she thinks he jokes

v Gives her dagger to kill him -- you must love or I must die

v He argues for incest and falsely says the church sanctions it

v She shares it; on knees: love me or kill me—they kiss—romance thrives

v 1.3

v florio hypocritically rejects Donado’s suit for his nephew Bergetto—offers big money, but B.’s a dunce; Don. Will tutor him

v B. credulously repeats barber’s marvel stories, tells of his silly effort at wooing—a fool character

v 2.1

v **G and A enter from bedchamber—high on sex; teasing; conquest

v She vows to be true to him despite having to marry [cf. White Devil]

v Putana—any sex is fine—she’s a whore—except for the speech of the people—cf. Giovanni’s reflection about opinion in 1.1

v “reach my work” father’s coming

v Doctor Richardetto and philotis with lute enter [nothing happens—lame scene]

v 2.2

v Soranzo debating with Sannazaro and writing love letter to Annabella…going on, comically

v Hippolyta breaks in—his former lover whose husband died of disgrace—now abandoned by him—puts down Annabella for being merchants daughter not noble

v She reveals how his promises convinced her to convince her husband to take a sea voyage on which he died

v **Soranzo turns against her with opprobrium, having gained this information, and urges her to repent her dishonor: Woman come here no more, Learn to repent, and die; for, by my honor I hate thee and thy lust.” 101

v His hypocrisy and manipulation

v She vows vengeance

v Vasquez tries to manipulate her, she says she has a plan

v She tries to get Vasquez to become her agent offering her estate; he lets us know he’ll play her

v 2.3

v Richardetto and niece--actually Hippolyta’s husband in disguise—is here for revenge on her

v She’s set to spy on Anabella, discovers she’s not in love with Soranzo

v Grimaldi asks him for love potion, Richardetto says Anabella loves Soranzo and gives Grimaldi poison with which to kill him [cf. Iago intrigue]

v 2.4

v Donado writes courtship letter for dunce Bergetto, who’s silly child at mercy of his servant Poggio

v 2.5

v *Giovanni argues platonically that A’s beauty makes her virtuous and therefore sanctifies their love; Friar, his teacher, is horrified.—argues against classical philosophers and that “nature is in heaven’s positions blind” 34

v Your age oerrules you—Giovanni describes her lecherously to the friar (!) 58

v A pair of souls are lost

v 2.6

v Donado bringing A. letter supposedly from his nephew; Putana tells him she supports him; he gives her money; Annabella refuses to accept jewel and tells donado she wont marry Bergetto

v Bergetto in farce scene says he’s fallen in love with Philotas after a fight in the street. Donado gives up the suit. She’s given mother’s ring to brother—missing jewel; Giovanni, jealous, tells A. to return jewel to Donado. [jewel is symbol]—the handkerchief in Othello

v 3.1

v More Bergetto and Poggio—B’s resolve to have her [cf. Roderigo and Iago]

v 3.2

v Florio wants Soriano to marry Annabella; leaves them alone. Giovanni, jealous: “Sister, be not all woman.” He eavesdrops [Othello] as Sor. Courts her with tears and she mocks him. He reproaches her; she says if she could love, she’d pick him. Giovanni’s reassured. Promises if she must marry it will be him

v Anabella is sick and leaves with Giovanni. Soranzo tells Vasquez what happened

v 3.3

v Putana: Dead no she is quick, tis worse, she is with child…typical pregnancy, don’t let doctor see her urine…how does this news perplex me

v 3.4

v Richardetto diagnoses her illness as fullness of blood=lust; her father will arrange to have her married immediately to Soranzo, he tells Richardetto

v Giovanni brings Friar to her to shrive her, Florio asks Friar to get her to marry.

v 3.5

v Grimaldi gets poison from richardetto, who has told Philotis to go after Bergetto who now wants to marry her. He has monstrous swelling around the stomach

v 3.6

v Annabella penitent before Friar

v He sermonizes hellfire and advises her to marry Soranzo and stop incesting

v Soranzo /Annabella betrothed in Friar’s cell in Giovanni’s presence

v 3.7

v Grimaldi strikes and hits Bergetto by accident in dark…I am wet before and behind 12 He dies

v 3.8

v Hippolyta says she’ll get Soranzo to Vasques

v 3.9

v Chasing Grimaldi to Cardinal’s palace. Grimaldi admits what he did as mistake. Cardinal gives him protection of Pope.

v Florio: Theres no help in this/ When cardinals think murder’s not amiss. Great men may do their wills; we must obey.

v 4.1

v Banquet—Soranzo toasting his wife as saving his life, with blessing of Friar

v Giovanni and Donado unhappy

v Masque announced

v They dance then Hippolyta unmasks and everyone shocked; she joins Annabella and Soranzo’s hands and drinks cup Vasques gives her. He says hes betrayed her—and fed her poison; everybody’s happy—she curses Soranzo and dies

v Richardetto [her husband]: here’s the end of lust and pride

v Feared portent

v 4.2

v richardetto has heard that Soranza and Annabella are not getting along; he doesn’t need to pursue revenge; advises Philotis to go to nunnery

v he’s gotten religion

v 4.3

v **soranzo cursing anabella for cuckolding him.

v She says she’ll hide the fact and may come to love him

v She glorifies the father—you shall have a son by him who’s greater than you

v His rage – cf. Othello—I’ll rip up thy heart…and with my teeth tear the prodigious lecher joint by joint.

v Thus will I pull thy hair…--she sings…refuses to tell

v Vasques intercedes, tells him to be ruled by reason—pleads for her, her spirit

v Aside says to fake it, he’ll be his agent [Iago]

v I had laid up the treasure of my heart [Othello]

v He starts appealing to her by speaking of his love

v She seems to be taken in, but we don’t know

v Vasques weeps

v Soranzo asks forgiveness; she kneels

v Vasques plots with him obscenely

v Delay in vengeance gives a heavier blow

v Vasques goes after Putana, acting as if he wants to protect A. by calming Soranza with knowledge of who did it, leaving her blameless, and threatening her with torture if she doesn’t. She lets him wrest it out of her—the brother.

v Calls in bandits to put out Putana’s eyes—this is excellent—enjoying himself: a smooth tale goes beyond a smooth tail

v Flatters and deceives Giovanni

v Then takes Soranza to tell him

v 5.1

v Annabella repents and takes responsibility for Giovanni’s fall—she’s believed Soranza’s act

v Grants the truth of the Friar

v He suddenly appears and flattered, agrees to take her letter of warning to Giovanni

v 5.2

v **Vasquez urging Soranzo onto revenge [compare to scene in Othello 4.1]--

v Another party planned—cf. Titus

v 5.3

v **Giovanni’s happiness in lust and atheism—contrast to Annabella 5.1

v Defies the Friar

v He insists on accepting invitation to party, despite Friar’s warning

v Friar splits altogether

v Heroic determination

v 5.4

v paying off banditi—macbeth and richard

v Vasques arranges for killing in the bed

v Giovanni goes to Annabella

v Soranzo cowtowing to Cardinal

v 5.5

v **Giovanni jests at her—and curses her for being honest

v Expresses atheism—no heaven or hell

v His weeping passion; their kiss on the point of death—sympathetic

v He kills her with a kiss, like Othello—asking for cleos

v He cheats Soranzo

v 5.6

v **Giovanni enters the party with a heart on sword

v Confesses to the whole group

v Father tires to say its rage

v Cardinal as witness

v These hands have from her bosom ripped this heart

v Florio dies

v Stabs Soranzo

v Vasques attacks and calls in banditti

v Giovanni refuses to repent

v Cardinal arranges to have Putana burned

v Vasquez is freed; spaniard outwent Italian

v Cardinal seizes jewels

v Richardetto reveals himself