Author: Ewing, Blaine
Title: Burtonian Melancholy in the Plays of John Ford
Description: New York, Octagon Books, 1969. Reprint, orig. cloth. 23x15cm, x,122 pp, A facsimile reprint of the 1940 edition.. Minor rubbing. Some slight page-edge soil. VG. ¶ Contents: An Epitome of Burton; Definition; Parts Affected; Kinds; Causes; Symptoms; Prognostics; Cure; Heroical Love-Melancholy; Jealous Melancholy; Religious Melancholy; Chronology; The Lovers Melancholy; The Fancies; The Broken Heart; Loves Sacrifice; 'Tis Pitty; Perkin Warbeck; The Queen; The Ladies Triall; The Significance of Melancholy; Ford's Accuracy; Ford's Development; The Effect upon Characters; Contrast with Torneur and Webster;The Effect upon Thought; The Effect upon Sympathy; The Source of Ford's Interest.

Keywords: Literary Criticism, Robert Burton, John Ford, English Literature, Seventeenth Century, Drama, Melancholy, ,