Surname: Ford Forename(s): John b. 1586. d. 1639. Nationality: English. VIAF.
Jacobean and Caroline dramatist and poet. Educated at Exeter College, Oxford. Lived
at Middle Temple, London. Author of Sir Thomas Overbury’s Ghost (1615), The Lovers Melancholy (1629), ’Tis Pity she’s a Whore (1633), The Broken Heart (1633), Perkin Warbeck (1634), and The Ladies Trial (1638). Member of the King’s Men and later the Queen’s Men. Collaborated with other
playwrights including Thomas Dekker and William Rowley. Biographical information:
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