Most active for only a few years in the 1620’s, John Ford nevertheless wrote a small set of dramas and tragedies that are of such high quality as to have landed him in the first tier of Elizabethan playwrights. Ford has come down to us most famous for his unparalleled ability to explore and express the anguish of his emotionally-torn female characters. Read more about John Ford here.

The Annotated Plays of John Ford:

Love’s Sacrifice (1633)

Perkin Warbeck (1634)