the queen, or the excellency of her sex: by john ford

A scholarly, modern-spelling edition of a play by the Caroline dramatist John Ford which was accidentally omitted from the 1652 edition of his works and so has not received much attention. A full introduction explores what made the play interesting to audiences both when it was first written in the late 1620s and when it was published in 1653.

Lisa Hopkins is Professor Emerita of English at Sheffield Hallam University