Джон Форд — один из крупнейших английских драматургов шекспировской плеяды. Наиболее известные его произведения — «Разбитое сердце», «Как жаль её развратницей назвать». Wikipedia
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Источник: Разбитое сердце
“Oh, happy kings,
Whose thrones are raised in their subjects' hearts.”
Perkin Warbeck, Act III, sc. i. (c. 1629-34)
“He hath shook hands with time.”
Act V, sc. ii.
The Broken Heart (c. 1625-33)
“Her words are trusty heralds to her mind.”
Love's Sacrifice, Act I, sc. i. (1632?)
Charles Lamb Specimens of English Dramatic Poets ([1808] 1854) p. 228.
Criticism
Act III, sc. v.
Tis Pity She's a Whore (1629-33?)
“Revenge proves its own executioner.”
Act IV, sc. i.
The Broken Heart (c. 1625-33)
Act I, sc. iii.
The Lady's Trial (1638)
“Let them fear bondage who are slaves to fear;
The sweetest freedom is an honest heart.”
Act I, sc. iii.
The Lady's Trial (1638)
“Busy opinion is an idle fool.”
Act V, sc. iii.
'Tis Pity She's a Whore (1629-33?)
“Glories
Of human greatness are but pleasing dreams,
And shadows soon decaying.”
Act III, sc. v.
The Broken Heart (c. 1625-33)
“Brother, even by my mother's dust, I charge you,
Do not betray me to your mirth or hate.”
Act I, sc. iii.
Tis Pity She's a Whore (1629-33?)
“Tell us, pray, what devil
This melancholy is, which can transform
Men into monsters.”
Act III, sc. i.
The Lover's Melancholy (1628)
“Ford is rather a sculptor of character than a painter.”
Algernon Charles Swinburne Essays and Studies ([1875] 1888) p. 278.
Criticism
“Delay in vengeance gives a heavier blow.”
Act III, sc. iii.
'Tis Pity She's a Whore (1629-33?)
“Sister, look ye,
How, by a new creation of my tailor's
I've shook off old mortality.”
The Fancies, Chaste and Noble Act I, sc. iii. (1635-6)
“Nice philosophy
May tolerate unlikely arguments,
But heaven admits no jest.”
Act I, sc. i.
Tis Pity She's a Whore (1629-33?)
Act V, sc. v.
Tis Pity She's a Whore (1629-33?)
Act III, sc. iii.
The Lover's Melancholy (1628)
“Fly hence, shadows, that do keep,
Watchful sorrows, charmed in sleep.”
Act V, sc. i.
The Lover's Melancholy (1628)
Act I, sc. iii.
Tis Pity She's a Whore (1629-33?)
“Tempt not the stars, young man, thou canst not play
With the severity of fate.”
Act I, sc. iii.
The Broken Heart (c. 1625-33)