“The gravity of the subject may easily excuse the lightness of the title; otherwise I had been a severe judge against mine own guilt.”
About John Ford
17 April 1586–c. 1639
John Ford, baptized on 17 April 1586 and last securely documented in 1639, was one of the most daring and emotionally penetrating dramatists of England’s late Renaissance. Although he is commonly remembered as a playwright rather than as a poet in the narrower sense, poetry is inseparable from his dramatic…