Broken Heart (Regents Renaissance Drama) - Hardcover

The most patient and persistent search into the lives of the oldE nglish dramatists is often but meagerly rewarded. Wide and perplexing gaps must be filled by the imagination, or, as it were, a fitting garment of fancy fashioned for the bare and broken skeleton of fact. Such is the case with John Ford. The dramatist was the second son ofT homas Ford, his mother being the sister of John Popham, Lord Chief Justice under James I. The Ford family was one of good standing in Devonshire, where, at I lsington, John Ford was baptized on the 17th of A pril, 1586. What schooling he had was obtained in or near his native town. If he went to either of the great universities he could hardly have remained more than one or two terms, for he was enrolled as a member of theM iddle Temple inN ovember, 1602. Popham had been appointed treasurer of this organization twenty years earlier, and it has been conjectured that he took an active interest in his young relative. A cousin and namesake had preceded the poet in London as a member of Gray sI nn, and between the two there appears to have existed an intimacy and affection almost brotherly.
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