The Queen, or the Excellency of Her Sex: By John Ford
(Hardback)
Publishing Details
The Queen, or the Excellency of Her Sex: By John Ford
By (Author) Lisa Hopkins
Manchester University Press
Manchester University Press
1st February 2025
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800
Literary studies: plays and playwrights
822.4
Physical Properties
Hardback
160
Width 138mm, Height 216mm, Spine 11mm
336g
Description
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 it was finally published in 1653. By this time the play's main plot about a sovereign who is threatened with execution would have recalled the beheading of Charles I four years earlier. The play can thus be seen as examining both psychology and politics.
Author Bio
Lisa Hopkins is Professor Emerita of English at Sheffield Hallam University
