The Broken Heart

Author(s): Ford, John
Date of composition:
  • 1629 (best guess, Wiggins, vol. 8, p. 384)
  • 1625 -1633 (approx., Wiggins, vol. 8, p. 384)
  • 1630 -1633 (approx., Harbage et al., p. 128)
Date of first performance: 1630 - 1633 approx.
Date of first publication: 1633
Genre (Annals): Tragedy

Catalogue references: Wiggins: 2281 (Vol. 8)
HIERONIMO/EMOTHE text(s): 1933 modern edition by Brooke, Charles F. Tucker Brooke and Nathaniel Burton Paradise
  • 1633 quarto Beale, John Beeston, Hugh single-play print
      ESTC: S102460 11156 817 480a
      EEBO-TCP: A01046 - British Library - EEBO record – TCP HTML XML HTML
      Observations: Also in John Ford's 1652 collection Comedies, Tragicomedies, and Tragedies (orig. title: "COMEDIES, Tragi-Comedies; & TRAGÆDIES:") (Wing F1466A ; DEEP 5149)

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Early Performances

  • Company: The King’s Men Venue: Date: 1630 (?)
    Cast:
      Location: Venue type: unknown
      Information source: Harbage, Alfred; Schoenbaum, Samuel; Wagonheim, Sylvia Stoler. Annals of English Drama, 975-1700, 3rd edition. 1989.

    Modern Productions

    (Selection)

    • Smith, R. D., adapt. and prod. Radio broadcast on Third Programme. 10 and 13 June 1956. [Transcript.]
    • National Theatre. Dir. Laurence Olivier. Perf. Fay Compton, Joan Greenwood; Keith Mitchel; André Morell; John Neville and Laurence Olivier. Chichester Festival Theatre. 1962.
    • Royal Shakespeare Company. Dir. Michael Boyd. Perf. Olivia Williams (Calantha); Robert Bowman (Ithocles); Emma Fielding (Penthea); Iain Glen (Orgilus). Swan/Newcastle Playhouse/Barbican Pit. 1994
    • Secret Center Theatre. Dir. Dan Horrigan. Perf. Lindsay McConville (Calantha); Rob Marni (Ithocles); Orna Salinger (Penthea); Richard Keightley (Orgilus). White Bear Theatre, London. 2006

     

    Modern editions

    • Kingsley-Smith, Jane, ed. The Duchess of Malfi, The White Devil, The Broken Heart and 'Tis Pity She's a Whore. Vol. 48. London: Penguin Books, 2015, pp. 591 . Kingsley-Smith, Jane (ed. and introd.).
    • Gibson, Colin, ed. The Selected Plays of John Ford: ‘The Broken Heart’; 'Tis Pity She's a Whore; ‘Perkin Warbeck’. Vol. 7. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986, pp. 356 . Cambridge: Plays by Renaissance & Restoration Dramatists. Gibson, Colin (ed. & introd.); Storey, Graham (pref.).
    • Spencer, T. J. B., ed. The Broken Heart. Ford, John. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1980. The Revels Plays.
    • Nethercot, Arthur H.; Baskervill, Charles R.; Heltzel, Virgil B., ed. Stuart Plays. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1971.
    • Sturgess, Keith, ed. Three plays, (''Tis Pity she's a Whore'; 'The Broken Heart'; 'Perkin Warbeck'). Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1970, pp. 414.
    • Wine, M. L., ed. The Broken Heart. Ford, John. New York: Modern Library, 1969. Drama of the English Renaissance.
    • Anderson, Donald K., ed. The Broken Heart. Ford, John. London: Edward Arnold, 1968. Regents Renaissance Drama.
    • Morris, Brian, ed. The Broken Heart. Ford, John. London: E. Benn, 1965. New Mermaids.
    • Ornstein, Robert; Spencer, Hazelton, ed. Elizabethan and Jacobean Comedy: An Anthology. Boston: Heath, 1964.
    • Ford, John . In: Harrier, Richard C., ed. The Anchor anthology of Jacobean drama. Vol. 2. New York: Anchor, 1963
    • Baskervill, Charles R., ed. Elizabethan and Stuart Plays. New York: H. Holt, 1934.
    • Brooke, Charles F. Tucker; Paradise, Nathaniel Burton, ed. English Drama 1580-1642. Boston: Heath, 1933.
    • Spencer, Hazelton, ed. Elizabethan Plays. Boston: Heath, 1933.

    Select Bibliography: Translations

    • DE:
      • Ford, John. "Das gebrochene Herz: ein Trauerspiel". Tra. Friedrich, Adolf (Graf von Schack). Ed. Friedrich, Adolf (Graf von Schack). Die englischen Dramatiker vor, neben und nach Shakespeare. Stuttgart: Cotta, 1893, p. 211-224.
      • Ford, John. "Ein gebrochenes Herz". Ed. Gelbcke, F. A.. Die englische Bühne zu Shakespeare’s Zeit. Leipzig: Brockhaus, 1890, p. 285-376.
      • Ford, John. "Das gebrochene Herz". John Ford’s dramatische Dichtungen: neben Stücken von Dekker und Rowley. Berlin: Verlag der Königlichen Geheimen Ober-Hofbuchdr, 1860, p. 269-355. Vol. 2.
      • Ford, John. Das gebrochene Herz. Tra. Wiener, Moritz. Berlin: {Falta nombre editorial}, 1858. Dramatische Werke.

    Select Bibliography: Criticism

    • Cahill, Patricia A. "Going through the Motions: Affects, Machines, and John Ford's 'The Broken Heart'"". Ed. Arab, Ronda; Dowd, Michelle M.; Zucker, Adam. Historical Affects and the Early Modern Theater. New York: Routledge, 2015, p. 15-27.
    • Murakami, Toshiro. "'The Broken Heart': Nakunarushikanai". Eigo Seinen/Rising Generation. 2005, vol. 11, 150, p. 684.
    • Barker, Roberta. "Death and the Married Maiden: Performing Gender in 'The Broken Heart'". English Studies in Canada. 2004, vol. 2, 30, p. 67-89.
    • Gutierrez, Nancy A. "Trafficking in John Ford's 'The Broken Heart'". Ed. Abate, Corinne S. Privacy, Domesticity, and Women in Early Modern England. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003, p. 65-81.
    • Crouch, Kristin. "'The Silent Griefs Which Cut the Heart Strings': John Ford's 'The Broken Heart' in Performance". Ed. Esche, Edward J.. Shakespeare and His Contemporaries in Performance. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000, p. 261-74.
    • Hopkins, Lisa. "'I Am Not Oedipus': Riddling the Body Politic in 'The Broken Heart'". Connotations: A Journal for Critical Debate. 1996, vol. 3, 6, p. 259-82.
    • Dyer, William D. "Holding/Withholding Environments: A Psychoanalytic Approach to Ford's 'The Broken Heart'". English Literary Renaissance. 1991, vol. 2, 21, p. 401-24.
    • Foster, Verna Ann; Foster, Stephen. "Structure and history in 'The Broken Heart': Sparta, England, and the 'truth'". English Literary Renaissance. 1988, vol. 2, 18, p. 305-28.
    • Hawkins, Harriett. "Mortality, Morality, and Modernity in 'The Broken Heart': Some Dramatic and Critical Counter-Arguments". Ed. Neill, Michael. John Ford: Critical Re-Visions. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988, p. 129-152.
    • Kessel, Marie L. "'The Broken Heart': An Allegorical Reading". Medieval & Renaissance Drama in England: An Annual Gathering of Research, Criticism and Reviews. 1986, 3, p. 217-230.
    • Hamilton, Sharon. "'The Broken Heart': Language Suited to a Divided Mind". Ed. Anderson, Donald K., Jr.. "Concord in Discord": The Plays of John Ford, 1586-1986. New York: AMS, 1986, p. 171-193.
    • Spinrad, Phoebe S. "Ceremonies of Complement: The Symbolic Marriage in Ford's 'The Broken Heart'". Philological Quarterly. 1986, vol. 1, 65, p. 23-37.
    • Neill, Michael. "Ford's Unbroken Art: The Moral Design of 'The Broken Heart'". Modern Language Review. 1980, 75, p. 249-68.
    • Barton, Anne. "Oxymoron and the structure of Ford's 'The Broken Heart'". Essays and Studies. 1980, 33, p. 70-94.
    • Waith, Eugene M. "Struggle for Calm: The Dramatic Structure of 'The Broken Heart'". Ed. Henning, Standish, Kimbrough, Robert, Knowles, Richard. English Renaissance Drama: Essays in Honor of Madeleine Doran & Mark Eccles. London: Southern Illinois UP, 1976, p. 155-66.
    • Schlueter, June. "Ford's 'The Broken Heart' as a Multiple-Plot Play". Thoth: Syracuse University Graduate Studies in English. 1975, vol. 2, 15, p. 21-26.
    • Greenfield, Thelma N. "The Language of Process in Ford's 'The Broken Heart'". PMLA: Publications of the Modern Language Association of America. 1972, vol. 3, 87, p. 397-405.
    • Kelly, Michael J. "The Values of Action and Chronicle in 'The Broken Heart'". Papers on Language and Literature: A Journal for Scholars and Critics of Language and Literature Edwardsville. 1971, 7, p. 150-58.
    • Kaufmann, R.J. "Ford's 'Waste Land': 'The Broken Heart'". Renaissance Drama Evanston. 1970, 3, p. 167-87.
    • Burbridge, Roger T. "The Moral Vision of Ford's 'The Broken Heart'". SEL: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900. 1970, vol. 2, 10, p. 397-407.
    • Pellizzi, Giovanna. "The Speech of Ithocles on Ambition in Ford's 'The Broken Heart'". English Miscellany: A Symposium of History, Literature and the Arts. 1969, 20, p. 93-99.
    • Burelback, Frederick M., Jr. "'The Truth' in John Ford's 'The Broken Heart' Revisited". Notes and Queries. 1967, 14, p. 211-212.
    • McDonald, Charles O. "The Design of John Ford's 'The Broken Heart': A Study in the Development of Caroline Sensibility". Studies in Philology. 1962, 59, p. 141-161.
    • Anderson, Donald K., Jr. "The Heart and the Banquet: Imagery in Ford's ''Tis Pity' and 'The Broken Heart'". SEL: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900. 1962, vol. 2, 2, p. 209-17.

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