The Collected Works of John Ford

Editor(s)

Gilles Monsarrat , Sir Brian Vickers FBA , R. J. C. Watt

Author(s)

John Ford

ISBN

9780199592906

Publisher

Institute of English Studies, Oxford University Press

Published

2011

Format

Hardback

Subject Areas

Renaissance Studies, London Forum for Authorship Studies

Price

£145.00

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Description

• Authoritative texts
• Includes two poems newly ascribed to Ford, Funerall Elegie (1612) and the Elegie for John Fletcher (1625)
• Detailed commentary provides historical explanations of the vocabulary, parallel passages in other works by Ford, and theatrical annotation
• Present Ford's works in the form that his first readers would have experienced them

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. 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.

Readership: Students and scholars of Renaissance literature

Contents

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

Reviews

"This is the first of three volumes bringing together the works of John Ford, the only such collection since 1869. The edition includes all the scholarly apparatus one expects from Oxford, including a very solid essay dealing with the complicated nature of Ford's biography." - D. Pesta, CHOICE

"When it is complete, this set will probably become the standard edition of Ford for the next century." - Shakespeare Newsletter