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年；《帕金·沃贝克》，1634年；《幻想、贞洁与高贵》，1638年；《女士的审判》，1639年；《情人的忧郁》，1629年；《爱的牺牲》，1633年；《她是个妓女》，1633年）在整理现存的四开本时发现的印刷变体；(2)通过对印刷文本应用各种分析书目方法来描述其排字人员的专业特征；(3)建立福特的戏剧文本。识别的项目开始于1989年4月123份四开,结束于1992年3月的233册,在拥有41库在英国,美国,日本,荷兰和瑞典,记录在“现存的副本的普查”部分书的形式独立报告的约翰·福特的戏剧《书目的研究:初步记录Press-Variants四开,13 - 15页。本项目第一年和第二年的结论已经以各自年份的“摘要”形式报告。它们或多或少是按计划忠实完成计划的结果：从国外收集新的主要材料，主要是缩微形式，记录在副本中发现的每一个变体，同时进行计算机辅助文本分析，尽管相当不完善。我想强调的是主要研究材料的收集质量，我确信这是世界上一流的。我也确信，作为本项目第一个目标的压力机变体的记录是最全面的。然而，在分析四开本中发现的创作特征的基础上，应该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.