John Ford (1586-1640?) was one of the leading playwrights of the generation following Shakespeare, best known for such plays as The Broken Heart, 'Tis Pity She's a Whore, and Perkin Warbeck. This is the first collected edition of John Ford's works since 1869. The edition includes several plays which have never before been included in his works, one sole-authored: The Queen, and four co-authored: The Welsh Ambassador (with Dekker), The Fair Maid of the Inn (with Webster and Massinger), The Spanish Gypsy (with Middleton, Rowley, and Dekker), and The Laws of Candy (with Rowley?). All texts have been freshly edited from the original Quarto editions, which have been collated to identify press corrections. Two texts are edited from manuscripts. A full commentary is provided for all texts, giving historical explanations of the vocabulary, parallel passages in other works by Ford, and theatrical annotation (where relevant). The edition is arranged largely in chronological order. Volume 1 contains all of Ford's poems and prose works: Honor Triumphant and The Monarch's Meeting, an opportunistic celebration of a royal visit and the amorous-chivalric contests; Fame's Memoriall, a panegyric to Charles Blount; two poems newly ascribed to Ford, Funerall Elegie and the Elegie for John Fletcher; his greatest poem, Christes Bloodie Sweat; the didactic prose works The Golden Meane and A Line of Life; and Uncollected Pieces, commendatory verses prefixed to plays or other works by friends of Ford, and of undisputed authenticity. There is also an introduction dealing with Ford's biography.

The Collected Works of John Ford: Volume I

Literature & Fiction

John Ford

Dramas & Plays

Oxford University Press

The Works of John Ford: Introduction by Gifford. List of Plays. Commendatory Verses. the Lover's Melancholy. 'tis Pity She's a Whore. the Broken Heart

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Franklin Classics Trade Press

The Dramatic Works of John Ford: : With an Introduction, and Notes Critical and Explanatory. in Two Volumes

History

HardPress Limited

AS/A-Level English Literature Student Text Guides comprise three sections: an Introduction, which outlines the aims of the guide, the relevant exam board specification and Assessment Objectives Text Guidance, which gives coverage of key aspects of the text Questions and Answers, which focuses on the various types of essay questions and offers specifmen plans and sample answers, together with mark schemes

'Tis Pity She's a Whore (New Mermaid Series)

W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.

Stagecoach (Classic film scripts)

Dudley Nichols

SIMON AND SCHUSTER

The Witch of Edmonton has received considerable attention recently both from scholars and critics interested in witchcraft practices and also from the directors in the theatre. The play, based on a sensational witchcraft trial of 1621, presents Mother Sawyer and her local community in the grip of a witch-mania reflecting popular belief and superstition of the time. This edition offers a thorough reconsideration of the text with a complete transcription of the original pamphlet by Henry Goodcole. This edition will be of particular interest not only to students of Renaissance Drama but also of the cultural history of the seventeenth century.. Open University adopted text (for their new Renaissance Drama module).

The Witch of Edmonton: by William Rowley, Thomas Dekker and John Ford (Revels Student Editions)

Dekker, Thomas

Rowley, William

Corbin, Peter

Sedge, Dekker

Manchester University Press

John Ford is best known as the author of the controversial *Tis Pity She’s a Whore*, but his other plays are also full of interest. The Lady’s Trial, his 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. 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.

The Lady's Trial (The Revels Plays)

The central situation of 'Tis Pity She's a Whore is an incestuous love between brother and sister, and it is hardly surprising that critics have differed widely in their interpretation of the exact meaning and significance of the play. . . . All the love affairs in the play end in disaster . . . it would even be possible to read the play as a series of warnings against the destructive effects of passion."-from the introduction by N. W. Bawcutt

'Tis Pity She's a Whore (Regents Renaissance Drama)

University Of Nebraska Press

Book by John Ford, Frank S. Nugent

WAGONMASTER.

Frank S. Nugent

Humor & Entertainment

Fredrick Ungar Publishing Company

WITCH EDMONTON

William Rowley

Thomas, Dekker

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