Professor Sir Brian Vickers is Distinguished Senior Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study, London University, Fellow of the British Academy, and Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has published extensively on Shakespeare, Elizabethan drama, Francis Bacon, classical rhetoric, Greek tragedy, and Jonathan Swift. His recent publications include three books devoted to authorship attribution in early modern drama and poetry.

Brian Vickers, Rowland Wymer, Nigel Bawcutt, Christopher Adams, Martin Wiggins, and Eleanor Lowe

"The Collected Works of John Ford is shaping up to be a magnificent achievement. Its annotation is outstanding, the introductions are comprehensive, and the computer-aided corpus linguistics used for attribution is state of the art." -- Bart Van Es, Times Literary Supplement

"Volume II offers a generous, detailed, and scholarly introduction to Volume III, which is a phenomenal resource in its own right ... The introductions are concise but comprehensive, giving readers factual information about original date of composition, performance, and publication, sources, generic conventions, and the main themes and concerns explored in the plays. The texts of the plays are generously laid out and accompanied by a level of textual and commentary notes in-keeping with the priorities of a hard back, old-spelling edition that is primarily aimed at fellow scholars and advanced students ... [a] magnificent project." -- Sonia Massai, Review of English Studies

"At their strongest, then, I valued the two new volumes of the Collected Works for their willingness to allow contingency, to acknowledge openness, and to encourage attention to the plays themselves, which together are ample encouragements in the anticipation of Volumes IV and V still to come." -- Tom Lockwood, The Library