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The Lady's Trial: By John Ford

The Lady's Trial: By John Ford

Hopkins, Lisa
Hopkins, Lisa

Paperback

Series: Revels Plays

Literary CriticismPlays

ISBN10: 0719099900
ISBN13: 9780719099908
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: Sep 1 2015
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.46
Height: 0.38 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

The Lady's Trial, Ford's last play, encapsulates the final development of his own unique theatrical aesthetic whilst looking back to the drama of his youth, most notably Othello, whose story is here rewritten.

In Ford's version, the supposedly wronged husband, the victorious general Auria, does not simply take the word of his friend, the well-intentioned but overly suspicious Aurelio, that his wife, Spinella, is unfaithful: instead he does what Othello apparently never even thinks of doing, and conducts a rational, public sifting of the apparent evidence, at the end of which Spinella is triumphantly cleared. In combining this story of public vindication with his distinctive dramatic style of delicate reticence, Ford offers a powerful exploration of both the capabilities and the limitations of language and its role in human relationships.

Newly available in paperback, the first scholarly edition of this undeservedly neglected play situates it in its dramatic and historical contexts and helps elucidate Ford's understated, allusive style.

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