The Collected Works of John Ford Volume I

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