The Collected Works of John Ford
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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. It contains two poems newly ascribed to Ford, Funerall Elegie (1612) and the Elegie for John Fletcher (1625). 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…mehr

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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. It contains two poems newly ascribed to Ford, Funerall Elegie (1612) and the Elegie for John Fletcher (1625). 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.
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Prior to his retirement Gilles Monsarrat was Professor of English, Université de Dijon (now University de Bourgogne). He is the author of Light From the Porch: Stoicism and English Renaissance Literature (Didier-Erudition, 1984). He was co-general editor, then general editor, of William Shakespeare, uvres Complètes, (a bilingual edition with the 1986 Oxford Text, ed. S. Wells and G.Taylor), 8 volumes (Robert Laffont, 1995-2002).; Professor Sir Brian Vickers is Distinguished Senior Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study, London University, Fellow of the British Academy, and Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He serves on the editorial boards of Annals of Science and Early Science and Medicine. R.J.C. Watt is an Honorary Research Fellow in English at the University of Dundee, where he was formerly Senior Lecturer and Head of Department. He has published on Renaissance literature and 19th- and 20th-century poetry, particularly on textual problems in Shakespeare and the poetry of Gerard Hopkins. He is the author of the text analysis software Concordance which is used in more than 60 countries worldwide. He is a Fellow of the English Association.