“Here you may view and read virtue personated in moderation: here you may know and prove moderation to be the life of virtue.”
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…