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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. 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.

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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 *

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

The volume does not only provide accurate, careful, old-spelling editions based on fresh collation of existing manuscripts, known copies of early editions and previous modern editions; its substantial introductions are usefully complemented with clear commentaries elucidating archaic vocabulary as well as sources, analogues, and Ford's unacknowledged translations and borrowings from classical authors ... a distinguished contribution to scholarship. Yves Peyre, Cahiers Elisabethains 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

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

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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, 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.

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