The Complete Works of John Ford

This project is funded by the AHRC (2005-2010) and administered by the Institute of English Studies, University of London. It will produce an old-spelling edition of Ford's complete poems, prose works and plays. The publisher is Oxford University Press and the editorial team consists of:

General Editor:
Professor Sir Brian Vickers , Litt D, FBA (School of Advanced Study, University of London)	(BV)
Editors:
Dr Nigel Bawcutt (University of Liverpool)	(NB)
Professor Carter Hailey (College of William and Mary, Williamsburg)	(CH)
Professor Lisa Hopkins (Sheffield Hallam University)	(LH)
Professor Gilles Monsarrat (University of Burgundy)	(GM)
Dr Katsuhiko Nogami Chiba Institute of Technology (Tokyo)	(KN)
Dr Robert Watt (University of Dundee)	(RJCW)
Dr Martin Wiggins (Shakespeare Institute, Statford Upon Avon)	(MW)
Professor Rowland Wymer (Anglia Ruskin University)	(RW)
Editorial Assistant:
Dr Marcus Dahl (Insitute of English Studies)	(MD)

*Texts will be freshly edited from the original Quarto editions. All extant copies of the Quartos will be collated.

*Editors will provide a text, textual collations and bibliographical notes, an introduction and full commentary.

* Co-authorship and the canon. Ford took part in several co-authored plays: with Dekker (The Welsh Ambassador, The Sun's Darling), with Dekker and Rowley (The Witch of Edmonton), with Rowley [Dekker?] and Middleton (The Spanish Gypsy), and with Webster and Massinger (The Fair Maid of the Inn). The two other plays have been ascribed to him: The Laws of Candy (published in the Beaumont and Fletcher Folio, 1643), and The Queen. All these works will be re-evaluated to establish the extent of Ford's contribution.

*The printed edition will be complemented by a complete Concordance using software created by Rob Watt (visit www.concordancesoftware.co.uk). This will use a modern spelling text derived from the main edition, distinguishing homographs and offering multiple search facilities. The concordance will be available online, free of charge, on the School of Advanced Study's server.

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Arrangement of the Edition (Dating by Martin Wiggins).

Volume 1 -	POEMS AND PROSE WORKS.
Submission -	July 2009; publication 2010.
	TEXT	EDITOR
	Honor Triumphant and Monarch's Meeting (1606)	GM
	Fames Memoriall (1606)	RJCW
	A Funerall Elegye (1612)	BV
	Christes Bloodie Sweat (1613)	RJCW
	The Golden Meane (1613/4)	GM
	A Line of Life (1620)	GM
	Elegy for John Fletcher (1625)	BV
	Uncollected Pieces (1606-1638 )	BV
Volume 2 -	PLAYS ( 1)
Submission -	December 2009; publication 2011.
	The Laws of Candy (1619)	BV
	The Witch of Edmonton (1621)	RW
	The Welsh Ambassador (1623)	BV
	The Spanish Gypsy (1623)	MD
	The Sun's Darling (1624)	BV
	The Fair Maid of the Inn (1626)	MW
	The Queen (1627)	MW
	The Broken Heart (1628-9)	LH
Volume 3 -	PLAYS ( 2)
Submission -	April 2010; publication 2011.
	The Lover's Melancholy (1629-32)	CH
	Tis a Pity She's a Whore (1631)	KN
	Love's Sacrifice (1631-32)	NB
	Perkin Warbeck (1633)	GM
	The Fancies Chaste and Noble (1635-36)	LH
	The Lady's Trial (1639)	KN

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For further information please contact us at:
The John Ford Project, School of Advanced Study, Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU.
Tel: +44 (0)207 664 4862 / Fax: +44 (0)207 664 4863
Email: marcus.dahl@sas.ac.uk / brian.vickers@sas.ac.uk

If you are interested in authorship studies, visit the website for the London Forum for Authorship Studies.

 

The John Ford Project is supported by a grant from the Arts and Humanities Research Council

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