'Tis Pity She's a Whore by John Ford

With a plot as complex (for lack of better words) as 'Tis Pity She's a Whore, coming up with interesting poster ideas is fairly easy. With the given restrictions on obvious visual images such as a heart or dagger, my poster would be on backdrop of inverted fading colors. The top of the poster would be pink, as pink symbolizes love and romance. It would then blend from pink to light red, which represents sexuality and passion. From there the color would blend into a deep red, which stands for fiery heat. This color can also mean danger. From red the poster, at the bottom, would become black to represent not only the death of relationships, but also the death of those lovers. In the black area of the poster my image would consist of an already bitten apple. From this apple will fall drops of blood and around the apple would be spider webs. The apple would represent forbidden fruit just as the characters partake in forbidden love. The drops of blood would represent death and I would place one drop falling from the apple for each life lost in the play. Finally the spider web would represent the tangled web of lies and deceit as well as a hectic web of lovers.


The quote at the bottom of the poster would be one of the following three:


"...'tis my fate that leads me on" -Giovanni (Act 1 scene 2)


"Revenge shall sweeten what my griefs have tasted." -Hippolita (Act 2 scene 2)


"Thou hast told a tale whose every word threatens eternal slaughter to the soul." -Friar (Act 2 scene 5)