'Tis Pity she’s a Whore?

Question

Anyone else think that Ford's play poses an interesting test-case highlighting the results when an individual is allowed to make precisely such moral judgments. The play, while implicitly acknowledging the nature of the incestuous relationship between its main protagonists, Giovanni and his sister Annabella, nevertheless allows Giovanni to pursue the logical ends of his own teleological confusion. In doing so, the play invites questions not only about the role of religion itself, but more specifically about the role of the individual who negotiates religious law in the quest of his own hedonistic satisfaction.

Answer 1

What effect does the fact that the play is a comedy have on your analysis of its meaning? Surely Ford is showing how ridiculous the principle characters are.