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- Title
Staging Passion in Ford's The Lover's Melancholy.
- Authors
Hopkins, Lisa
- Abstract
The article focuses on English playwright John Ford's tragicomedy "The Lover's Melancholy." "The Lover's Melancholy" seems an exception among Ford's plays. Most are structured around violent and sensational events; "The Lover's Melancholy" is quiet. This is because the play posits as an essential quality of the human psyche a slowness in the changing of emotional gears. Emotion is not only "staged" in the sense of being acted out, but also always accompanied by a time-delay mechanism. Hence this play is not peripheral to Ford's oeuvre, but a slow-motion investigation of the processes that lie at the heart of it, and a crucial part of his ongoing inquiry into the nature of drama.
- Subjects
LOVER'S Melancholy, The (Theatrical production); FORD, John, 1586-ca. 1640; DRAMATISTS; TRAGICOMEDY; ENGLISH drama (Tragicomedy); EMOTIONS
- Publication
SEL: Studies in English Literature (Johns Hopkins), 2005, Vol 45, Issue 2, p443
- ISSN
0039-3657
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/sel.2005.0019