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.
Gilles Monsarrat, Retired Professor of English, Universite de Dijon;Sir Brian Vickers FBA, Distinguished Senior Fellow, School of Advanced Study, London University;R. J. C. Watt, Honorary Research Fellow in English, University of Dundee
Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction: The Early Years (1586-1620); Honor Triumphant and The Monarches Meeting (1606); Fames Memoriall, or The Earle of Devonshire Deceased (1606); A Funerall Elegie for William Peter (1612); Christes Bloodie Sweat (1613); The Golden Meane (1613: 1614); A Line of Life (1620); Elegy on John Fletcher (ca. 1625); Uncollected Pieces (1606-1638); Index
Show moreJohn 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.
Gilles Monsarrat, Retired Professor of English, Universite de Dijon;Sir Brian Vickers FBA, Distinguished Senior Fellow, School of Advanced Study, London University;R. J. C. Watt, Honorary Research Fellow in English, University of Dundee
Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction: The Early Years (1586-1620); Honor Triumphant and The Monarches Meeting (1606); Fames Memoriall, or The Earle of Devonshire Deceased (1606); A Funerall Elegie for William Peter (1612); Christes Bloodie Sweat (1613); The Golden Meane (1613: 1614); A Line of Life (1620); Elegy on John Fletcher (ca. 1625); Uncollected Pieces (1606-1638); Index
Show moreIllustrations
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction: The Early Years (1586-1620)
Honor Triumphant and The Monarches Meeting (1606)
Fames Memoriall, or The Earle of Devonshire Deceased (1606)
A Funerall Elegie for William Peter (1612)
Christes Bloodie Sweat (1613)
The Golden Meane (1613: 1614)
A Line of Life (1620)
Elegy on John Fletcher (ca. 1625)
Uncollected Pieces (1606-1638)
Index
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, OEuvres 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.
The Collected Works of John Ford is shaping up to be a magnificent
achievement. Its annotation is outstanding, the introductions are
comprehensive, and the computer-aided corpus linguistics used for
attribution is state of the art.
*Bart Van Es, Times Literary Supplement*
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