'Tis Pity Ford's Not Shakespeare
✮✮ John Ford's The Broken Heart Sam Wanamaker Playhouse directed by Caroline Steinbeis This play should really be called The Broken Hearts, plural. A beautiful princess's death at the very end is attributed to her "broken heart," but she is merely the last of several characters who meet a sticky finale because they're desperately unhappy with how their romantic entanglements have panned out. Murder, suicide, and self-starvation as well as simply giving up the will to live are
