The Collected Works of John Ford

• 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

Readership: Students and scholars of Renaissance literature

Edited by Gilles Monsarrat, Retired Professor of English, Université de Dijon, Sir Brian Vickers FBA, Distinguished Senior Fellow, School of Advanced Study, London University, and R. J. C. Watt, Honorary Research Fellow in English, University of Dundee

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 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

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