Bibliographical Studies in the Plays of John Ford

本项目有以下三个目标：(1)记录约翰·福特七部戏剧(即，《破碎的心》，1633；《帕金·沃贝克》，1634；《幻想、纯洁与高贵》，1638；《女士的审判》，163 9；《情人的忧郁》，1629；《爱的牺牲》，1633；以及《Tis Pitv She‘s Whore，1633》)在整理现存四部作品的过程中发现的印刷变体；(2)通过对印刷文本应用各种分析书目的方法，描述作曲家的职业特征；以及(3)建立福特的戏剧性文本。该项目始于1989年4月，鉴定了123份四重奏，于1992年3月结束，233份，由联合王国、美国、日本、荷兰和瑞典的41家图书馆拥有，记录在另一份名为《约翰·福特戏剧中的书目研究：四重奏中的新闻变种的暂定记录》的书形式的单独报告的《现存副本的普查》部分中，Pp.13-15.本项目第一年和第二年的结论已分别以“摘要”的形式作了报告。它们或多或少是计划如期忠实完成的结果：从国外收集新的原始材料，主要是以缩微形式收集，并记录在副本中发现的每一种变体，同时进行计算机辅助文本分析，尽管相当不完善。我想强调的是，原始研究材料的收集质量，我相信是世界上一流的。我也确信，作为本项目的第一个目标的新闻变种的记录是最全面的。然而，应该在分析四重奏中发现的组成特征的基础上，进一步努力建立福特的戏剧文本。

The present project has the following three objectives : (1) to record pressvariants in the first quartos of John Ford's seven plays (i. e., The Broken Heart, 1633 ; Perkin Warbeck, 1634 ; The Fancies, Chaste and Noble, 1638 ; The Lady's Trial, 163 9 ; The Lover's Melancholy, 1629 ; Love's Sacrifice, 1633 ; and 'Tis Pitv She's a Whore, 1633) discovered in the course of collation of the extant copies of the quartos ; (2) to describe professional characteristics of their compositors through application of various methods of analytical bibliography to the printed texts ; and (3) to establish Ford's dramatic texts.The project was started in April 1989 with identification of 123 copies of the quartos and was ended in March 1992 with that of 233 copies, which are in the possession of forty-one libraries in the United Kingdom, the United States of America, Japan, Holland and Sweden, as recorded in the "CENSUS OF EXTANT COPIES" section of the separate report in book form entitled BIBLIOGRAPHICAL STUDIES IN THE PLAYS OF JOHN FORD : A Tentative Record of Press-Variants in the Quarto, pp. 13-15.Conclusions of the first-and the second years of the present project were already reported in the form of an "Abstract" for their respective year. They were the results of more or less faithful achievement of the plans as scheduled : collecting from abroad new primary material mostly in microform and recording every variant discovered in the copies, while carrying out computer-aided textual analyses, though rather imperfect.I would like to emphasize the quality of the collection of the primary research material, which I am sure is of the first rate the world over. I am also certain that the record of press-variants, which is the first objective of the present project, is of the most comprehensive.Further effort, however, ought to be made for the establishment of Ford's dramatic texts on the basis of the analyses of compositorial characteristics discovered in the quartos.