The Selected Plays of John Ford : The Broken Heart, 'Tis Pity She's a Whore, Perkin Warbeck Paperback / softback
Edited by Colin Gibson
Part of the Plays by Renaissance and Restoration Dramatists series
Paperback / softback
Description
This selection contains the three finest plays of the Stuart dramatist John Ford.
The Broken Heart is a classical tragedy of suffering; 'Tis Pity She's a Whore, Ford's best-known play and one still frequently performed, is a tragic story of limitless ambition and social rivalry expressed in sexual terms; Perkin Warbeck is the last great successor to the history plays of Shakespeare.
Together they exemplify the unique tone of Ford's drama, in which passion and gravity are united by a playwright with a poetic sense of theatre.
This is the only one-volume selection of Ford's plays now available.
The texts are modernised and equipped with notes explaining unfamiliar language and historical references.
A general introduction gives a brief biography and bibliography; individual introductions deal with the sources and stage history of each play.
Longer notes at the back of the book discuss points of staging and interpretation, and there is a full textual apparatus which makes this edition useful for the scholar as well as the student.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:376 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:29/08/1986
- ISBN:9780521295451
Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:376 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:29/08/1986
- ISBN:9780521295451
