The Selected Plays Of John Ford

Author : John Ford
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 : 9780521295451
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Selected Plays of John Ford written by John Ford and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1986-08-29 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 The texts are modernised and equipped with notes explaining unfamiliar language and historical references.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.

Author : John Webster
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Webster and Ford written by John Webster and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Ford
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134944489
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 'Tis Pity She's A Whore written by John Ford and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-07-13 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last decade has seen a revival of interest in John Ford and especially 'Tis Pity She's a Whore, his tragedy of religious scepticism, incestuous love, and revenge. This text in particular has provided a focus for scholarship as well as being the subject of a number of major theatrical productions. Simon Barker guides the reader through the full range of previous interpretations of the play; moving from an overview of traditional readings he goes on to enlarge upon new questions that have arisen as a consequence of critical and cultural theory.

Author : Brian Vickers
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780198748861
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Complete Works of John Ford written by Brian Vickers and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2016-04-07 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volumes II and III of The Collected Works of John Ford contain the six plays that Ford wrote at the beginning of his theatrical career in collaboration with other dramatists: The Laws of Candy (1619-20) with Massinger, The Witch of Edmonton (1621) with Dekker and Rowley, The Welsh Ambassador (1623) with Dekker, The Spanish Gypsy (1623) with Dekker, Rowley, and Middleton, The Sun's Darling (1624) with Dekker, and The Fair Maid of the Inn (1626) with Massinger and Webster. This is the first time that Ford's co-authored works have been collected. In Volume II, the General Editor, Sir Brian Vickers, contributes two introductions, "Co-authorship in Jacobean and Caroline Drama," and "Identifying Co-Authors." In the first he reviews collaborative authorship (practiced by every dramatist of this period), in terms of theatrical conditions, the competing companies, the need for new repertoire, the process of assigning individual contributions and assembling the whole play. In the second he discusses the methods that have been applied over the last two centuries to identify co-authors. He then provides separate discussions of the authorship problem in each play, evaluating previous attributions and bringing new evidence to bear. A special feature of this volume is the introduction of a new methodology, based on computer software programs that identify student plagiarism. Used in combination with high-speed search engines and a large electronic database of contemporary plays, this method permits for the first time accurate identification of each co-author's contribution.

Author : John Ford
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780192834492
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 'Tis Pity She's a Whore and Other Plays written by John Ford and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1998 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ford's tragedy, originally printed in 1633, was the first major English play to take as its theme fulfilled incest between brother and sister.

Author : Brian Vickers
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192865617
Total Pages : 698 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Collected Works of John Ford written by Brian Vickers and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-02-19 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume IV of the Collected Works of John Ford is the first of two volumes in the series to contain his sole-authored plays. It contains three of his most celebrated plays: 'Tis Pity She's a Whore (1622), The Lovers' Melancholy (1628), and The Broken Heart (1629), as well as the less well-known The Queen (1629). The volume opens with a general introduction to Ford's work as a sole author by Sir Brian Vickers and each play is given a detailed introduction emphasizing Ford's linguistic creativity and his effective use of the indoor private theatres. Authoritative old-spelling texts, freshly edited from the original quartos with full textual collations, are accompanied by a full commentary on all aspects of the plays, from archaic or obsolete words to classical allusions and historical references to people, places, and social customs.

Author : Joseph McBride
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496800567
Total Pages : 983 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Searching for John Ford written by Joseph McBride and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2011-02-11 with total page 983 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Ford's classic films—such as Stagecoach, The Grapes of Wrath, How Green Was My Valley, The Quiet Man, and The Searchers—have earned him worldwide admiration as America's foremost filmmaker, a director whose rich visual imagination conjures up indelible, deeply moving images of our collective past. Joseph McBride's Searching for John Ford, described as definitive by both the New York Times and the Irish Times, surpasses all other biographies of the filmmaker in its depth, originality, and insight. Encompassing and illuminating Ford's myriad complexities and contradictions, McBride traces the trajectory of Ford's life from his beginnings as “Bull” Feeney, the nearsighted, football-playing son of Irish immigrants in Portland, Maine, to his recognition, after a long, controversial, and much-honored career, as America's national mythmaker. Blending lively and penetrating analyses of Ford's films with an impeccably documented narrative of the historical and psychological contexts in which those films were created, McBride has at long last given John Ford the biography his stature demands.

Author : John Ford
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 644 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dramatic Works of John Ford written by John Ford and published by . This book was released on 1831 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Ford
Publisher : London : J. Toovey
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Works of John Ford written by John Ford and published by London : J. Toovey. This book was released on 1869 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Ford
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719015335
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lover's Melancholy written by John Ford and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: