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queen mole rat Elizabeth and Annabella in Tis Pity Shes a Whore by John Ford Annabella, the female protagonist in John Fords play, Tis Pity Shes a Whore, eventually dies after trying to meet the conflicting demands that her brother and father role on her. While her brother, Giovanni, commands her to be his clandestine lover, her father, Florio, expects her to marry a socially appropriate man and bear a child. These demands closely resemble the real-life demands that Queen Elizabeth Is subjects placed on her because they simultaneously wanted her to converge t replacement erotic desires, marry a policy-makingly appropriate man, and produce an heir to the throne. Fords play was first published in 1633, xxx years after the death of Queen Elizabeth I, but nostalgia in the belatedly 1620s and 1630s drove peopleto measure a worsening political situation against inevitably heightened memories or impressions of what life had been like under the dandy queen (Morris vii Barton 724) . While its not clear whether this nostalgia for the hulk of Elizabeth drove Ford when he wrote his play, there argon clear parallels amongst the demands that were placed on the factual Elizabeth and on the fictional Annabella moreover, there are striking parallels between the responses to the two womens deaths. Both women were expected to evermore remain objects of male erotic desire, and the characteristics of Elizabeth that evoked erotic desire in her subjects parallel the characteristics of Annabella that elicit erotic desire in Giovanni. Just as courtiers paid homage to Elizabeth as an ever-youthful yet unapproachable object of desire, Giovanni confesses to Annabella, The purview / Of thy immortal beauty hath untuned / All harmony both... ...bbory, Achsah. Oh, Let Mee Not distribute So The Politics of Love in Donnes Elegies. ELH 57.4 (1990) 811-833.King, John N. Queen Elizabeth I Representations of the Virgin Queen. Renaissance quarterly 43.1 (1990) 30 -74.Morris, Brian. Introduction. Tis Pity Shes a Whore. By John Ford. Ed. Brian Morris. London Black, 1992. vii-xxvii.Mullaney, Steven. Mourning and Misogyny Hamlet, The Revengers Tragedy, and the Final Progress of Elizabeth I, 1600-1607. Shakespeare Quarterly 45.2 (1994) 139-162.Promiscuous, a.2a. Oxford English Dictionary. 1989 Second ed. OED Online. Oxford University Press. 8 May 2005 . Rose, Mary Beth. The Gendering of Authority in the Public Speeches of Elizabeth I. Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 115.5 (2000) 1077-1082.