JOHN FORD'S POLITICAL THEATRE

First edition. Hardcover. Publisher's original black cloth with gilt titles to the upper board and spine. A near fine copy, the binding square and firm, the cloth bright and fresh, with a little rubbing to the extremities, and just a little wear to the head of the spine. The contents, with a small bookseller's paper label to the front pastedown and a couple instances of pencilled marginalia by previous owner Dr Richard Rowland, are otherwise clean throughout, and without inscriptions or stamps.

From the library of (and with marginalia of) Dr Richard Rowland, editor and author on the Renaissance and classical mythology, and Senior Lecturer in the Department of English and Related Literature at the University of York. 'Little is known about the life and career of the Caroline dramatist John Ford. This book draws on new research to situate him and his plays in some unexpected new contexts, and enables the works to be read in light of some of the major political and religious controversies of the age' (publisher's blurb).