{"id":427,"date":"2017-05-02T15:17:02","date_gmt":"2017-05-02T19:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/?p=427"},"modified":"2017-05-02T15:17:02","modified_gmt":"2017-05-02T19:17:02","slug":"tis-a-pity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/incest-and-jacobean-tragedy\/tis-a-pity\/","title":{"rendered":"Tis a Pity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Similar to our class discussion of doubling in \u201cThe Duchess of Malfi,\u201d the first two acts of Ford\u2019s play seem to reveal\u00a0how Giovanni and Annabella (siblings) are in love because of their \u2018sameness,\u2019 a factor that normally obstructs erotic desire (we\u2019ve previously explored this mirroring in Donne\u2019s \u201cThe Cannonization\u201d: \u201cBy us; we two being one, are it.\u201d)<\/p>\n<p>Annabella&#8217;s beauty is \u201cthe frame and composition\u201d which Giovanni\u00a0follows. He is not in love with her character, or her intelligence, or her \u201csoul,\u201d even though Neoplatonic tradition argues that the body is just a vessel for the soul (and that the soul will be released when the body dies).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Similar to our class discussion of doubling in \u201cThe Duchess of Malfi,\u201d the first two acts of Ford\u2019s play seem to reveal\u00a0how Giovanni and Annabella (siblings) are in love because of their \u2018sameness,\u2019 a factor that normally obstructs erotic desire (we\u2019ve previously explored this mirroring in Donne\u2019s \u201cThe Cannonization\u201d: \u201cBy us; we two being one, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":423,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-incest-and-jacobean-tragedy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/423"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}