Volume III of the first collected edition since 1869 of the works of the major Jacobean author John Ford. All texts have been freshly edited from the original Quarto editions, which have been collated to identify press corrections.

• Part I Introductions


• Co-authorship in Jacobean and Caroline Drama


• Identifying Co-Authors


• Authorship Introductions and Commentaries


• Part II The Plays


• The Laws of Candy (1619-20), with Massinger


• The Witch of Edmonton (1621), with Dekker and Rowley


• The Welsh Ambassador (1623), with Dekker


• The Spanish Gypsy (1623), with Dekker, Rowley, and Middleton


• The Sun's Darling (1624), with Dekker


• The Fair Maid of the Inn (1626), with Massinger and Webster

Professor Sir Brian Vickers is Distinguished Senior Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study, London University, Fellow of the British Academy, and Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has published extensively on Shakespeare, Elizabethan drama, Francis Bacon, classical rhetoric, Greek tragedy, and Jonathan Swift. His recent publications include three books devoted to authorship attribution in early modern drama and poetry.