The Queen, or the Excellency of Her Sex: By John Ford

by Lisa Hopkins

A scholarly, modern-spelling edition of a play by the Caroline dramatist John Ford, which has not seen much previous critical attention due to being accidentally omitted from the 1652 edition of his complete works. The introduction resituates the play in the Ford canon and explores how it spoke to audiences when it was first composed in the late 1620s, when it tapped into the contemporary fascination with the pathology of melancholy, and also when...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1526181142
• ISBN13: 9781526181145
• Release Date: January 2025
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 160 Pages