John Ford (English Dramatist)
Ford, John - 1586–c.1640, English dramatist, b. Devonshire. He went to London to study law but was never called to the bar. The early part of his playwriting career was taken up with collaborations, primarily with Dekker. His three major tragedies, 'Tis Pity She's a Whore, The Broken Heart, and Love's Sacrifice, and a historical play, Perkin Warbeck appeared between 1627 and 1634. Ford was Read More...
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John Ford (English Dramatist)
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The Lover's Melancholy; The Broken Heart; 'Tis Pity She's a Whore; Perkin Warbeck
by John Ford, Marion Lomax. 382 pgs.
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Counterfeiting Shakespeare: Evidence, Authorship, and John Ford's Funerall Elegye
by Brian Vickers. 568 pgs.
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Shakespeare's Contemporaries: Modern Studies in English Renaissance Drama ("John Ford: The Last Jacobean Tragedy" begins on p. 282)
by Max M. Bluestone, Norman M. Rabkin. 300 pgs.
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Studies in the English Renaissance Drama ("The Mystery of Perkin Warbeck" begins on p. 125)
by Josephine W. Bennett, Oscar Cargill, Vernon Hall. 368 pgs.
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An Introduction to Stuart Drama (Chap. XIV "John Ford: Tragedies of Melancholy")
by Frederick S. Boas. 446 pgs.
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Staging Passion in Ford's the Lover's Melancholy, in Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900
by Lisa Hopkins. 17 pgs.
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Touching Touchets: Perkin Warbeck and the Buggery Statute, in Renaissance Quarterly
by Lisa Hopkins. 18 pgs.
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"This Idol Thou Ador'st": The Iconography of 'Tis Pity She's a Whore, in Papers on Language & Literature
by Laurel Amtower. 28 pgs.
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