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Introduction Michael Neill 1. Ford in performance Roger Warren 3. 'Sensationalism' and 'melodrama' in Ford's plays Richard Madelaine 3. 'The Stage of My Mortality': Ford's poetry of death Colin Gibson 4. Singing through the chatter: Ford and contemporary theatrical fashion Andrew Gurr 5. 'Language and matter with a fit of mirth': dramatic construction in the plays of John Ford Kathleen McLuskie 6. Mortality, morality and modernity in The Broken Heart: some dramatic and critical counter-arguments Harriett Hawkins 7. 'What strange riddle's this?': deciphering 'Tis Pity She's a Whore Michael Neill 8. 'Tis Pity She's a Whore as city tragedy Verna Foster 9. Love's Sacrifice: Ford's metatheatrical tragedy Martin Butler 10. 'Being all one': Ford's analysis of love and friendship in Loues Sacrifice and The Ladies Traill Brian Opie 11. 'Effeminately dolent': gender and legitimacy in Ford's Perkin Warbeck Jean Howard Index.

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