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The third edition of Strategic Marketing examines the ways in which
companies create and sustain their competitive advantage. Utilizing
a robust marketing strategy framework, it covers each of the
central questions in the popular "WWHD" model: Where are you now?
Where do you want to be? How will you get there? Did you get there?
This framework provides students with the tools and techniques to
assess the role of marketing strategy in an organization, and to
evaluate its impact and contribution. This text is accompanied by
an Online Resource Centre which provides: For students: Chapter
summaries Internet exercises Key themes and further reading Web
links For lecturers: Additional case studies Guide to additional
case studies Answers to case questions Case analyses and teaching
notes PowerPoint slides Test bank Links to video clips on strategic
issues
Published in 1985: The main plot portrays the bachelor Octavio,
Marquis of Siena, and his establishment of his "Bower of Fancies,"
something like a Platonic academy for those he calls the "fancies"
- Clarella, Silvia, and Floria, three young women who are, or are
said to be,"young, wise, noble, fair, and chaste.
Published in 1985: The main plot portrays the bachelor Octavio,
Marquis of Siena, and his establishment of his "Bower of Fancies,"
something like a Platonic academy for those he calls the "fancies"
- Clarella, Silvia, and Floria, three young women who are, or are
said to be,"young, wise, noble, fair, and chaste.
The latest in the"Routledge English Texts" series, "'Tis Pity She's
a Whore" is John Ford's tragic tale of religious skepticism,
incest, and revenge. Edited by Simon Barker, this critical edition
explores the larger realm of early seventeenth-century theater and
seeks to de- center Shakespeare as the only valid voice of the
period. This edition of the play is worked afresh from the Quarto.
"'Tis Pity She's A Whore" includes an introduction, complete
notes, and a critical essay encompassing the fields of early Stuart
theater, the sources and influences of John Ford, a critical
history of the play, and an analysis of modern interpretations
based on the issues of gender and sexuality.
The last decade has seen a revival of interest in John Ford and
especially 'Tis Pity She's a Whore, his tragedy of religious
scepticism, incestuous love, and revenge. This text in particular
has provided a focus for scholarship as well as being the subject
of a number of major theatrical productions. Simon Barker guides
the reader through the full range of previous interpretations of
the play; moving from an overview of traditional readings he goes
on to enlarge upon new questions that have arisen as a consequence
of critical and cultural theory.
This is a fully modernized, annotated edition of John Ford's
controversial tragedy of sibling incest and complex revenge plots.
As with all Arden editions, it features detailed on-page commentary
notes to help the reader understand and appreciate the play both in
performance and as a many layered literary text. The comprehensive
introduction offers a wealth of critical and contextual information
and explores the controversial theme of incest from an early modern
perspective. Editor Sonia Massai reveals the startling originality
of the play, which is far more than a dark rewriting of "Romeo and
Juliet," and explores the reasons for the play's enduring appeal to
modern audiences.
Francis Bacon described revenge as a 'kind of wild justice'. Then
as now, early modern playwrights and their theatre-going public
were fascinated by the anarchic energies that a desire for
retribution unleashes. Rather than rehearsing familiar conventions,
each of these plays presents a unique social and cultural milieu
where dark fantasies of revenge are variously played out.In Kyd's
"The Spanish Tragedy"""a grieving father seeks public justice for
the murder of his son by envious princelings. When his attempts are
thwarted he turns a court spectacle of murder into the 'real'
thing. Blackly comic in its tone and style, "The Revenger's
Tragedy"""(anon.) presents vengeance as mimetic art, witty and
cruel. Ford's '"Tis Pity She's a Whore"""represents an innovative
re-working of the genre as a brother's love for his sister leads to
his spectacular revenge on his rival, her husband, in a society in
which brutal retaliation for perceived wrong is the norm. In
Webster's "The White Devil" crimes of passion ignite revenge in the
courts of the Italian city states.This student edition contains
fully annotated, modernized texts of each play together with an
introduction discussing the dramatic and poetic style of each play,
focusing on its action and play of ideas.
In the village of Edmonton, Elizabeth Sawyer is shunned by her
neighbours. A poor and lonely old woman, she is harassed and
accused of being a witch. In her abject misery, she wishes that she
really were bewitched and so able to have her revenge. Unluckily
for Elizabeth and the villagers of Edmonton, someone with the power
to grant that wish is listening. First performed in 1621, The Witch
of Edmonton was based by its authors Thomas Dekker, John Ford and
William Rowley on a real-life case of a woman accused of
witchcraft. The play was revived by the Royal Shakespeare Company
as part of its 2014 Roaring Girls season, in the Swan Theatre,
Stratford-upon-Avon, directed by RSC Artistic Director Gregory
Doran and with Eileen Atkins as Elizabeth Sawyer. This Prompt Book
edition of the play features the text edited for the RSC
production, and introductions by key members of its creative team,
including Doran.
Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price The
tragic story of incestuous love between Giovanni and his sister
Annabella. When Annabella is found to be pregnant by her brother,
she agrees to marry her suitor Soranzo. But when the lovers'
incestuous secret is discovered, vengeance and bloody murder
follow. John Ford's play 'Tis Pity She's a Whore was first
performed in London between 1629 and 1633, and was first published
in 1633. This edition of the play, in the Nick Hern Books Drama
Classics series, is edited and introduced by Lisa Hopkins.
One of the most controversal plays in drama literature, this play's
treatment of the subject of incest and the portrayal of the
morality of the protagonist has made this play one of the most
studied in history. It is one of the most psychologically powerful
and intellectually challenging tragedies produced in the early
years of King Charles I's reign and 20th-century directors have
found inspiration from the play in theatrical and film adaptations
and productions. In the plot Annabella, accompanied by her
down-to-earth nurse, is introduced to a series of suitors to her
hand. She finds all of them unsatisfactory - and rightly so, for
the audience knows that the nastiest of them is having an affair
with her domineering aunt. Eventually she is wooed by a sensitive
and passionate young man whose love she returns - but this young
man happens to be her own brother, Giovanni. When they consummate
their love and she, to avoid the scandal of extramarital pregnancy,
agrees to marry her aunt's lover, the tragic outcome is inevitable.
The central situation of 'Tis Pity She's a Whore is an incestuous
love between brother and sister, and it is hardly surprising that
critics have differed widely in their interpretation of the exact
meaning and significance of the play. . . . All the love affairs in
the play end in disaster . . . it would even be possible to read
the play as a series of warnings against the destructive effects of
passion."-from the introduction by N. W. Bawcutt
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