“A good life aims at another mark; for such men as endeavour to live well, live with an expectation of death, and they when they die, die to live, and live for ever.”
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…