ABBREVIATIONS

EDITIONS OF THE PLAY CITED

Barker	’Tis Pity She’s a Whore, ed. Simon Barker, Routledge English Texts (London, 1997)
Dodsley	Robert Dodsley (ed.), A Select Collection of Old Plays (London, 1744)
Dyce	The Works of John Ford, ed. William Gifford, rev. Alexander Dyce (London, 1869), vol. 1
Gibson	The Selected Plays of John Ford, ed. Colin Gibson (Cambridge, 1986)
Gifford	The Dramatic Works of John Ford, ed. William Gifford (London, 1827), vol. 1
Lomax	’Tis Pity She’s a Whore and Other Plays, ed. Marion Lomax, Oxford English Drama (Oxford, 1995)
Mcllwraith	Five Stuart Tragedies, ed. A. K. Mcllwraith (London, 1953)
Morris	’Tis Pity She’s a Whore, ed. Brian Morris, The New Mermaids 1st edition (London, 1968)
Q	The Quarto of 1633
Roper	’Tis Pity She’s a Whore, ed. Derek Roper, The Revels Plays (London, 1975)
Schmitz	A Critical Edition of John Ford’s ’Tis Pitty Shee’s a Whore’, ed. Elsie Kemp Schmitz (unpublished Cambridge M.Litt. thesis, 1959)
Sturgess	Three Plays, ed. Keith Sturgess (Harmondsworth, 1970)
Weber	The Dramatic Works of John Ford, ed. Henry William Weber (Edinburgh, 1811), vol. 1

OTHER WORKS

First Fruits	John Florio, Florio His First Fruites (London, 1578)
N&Q	Notes and Queries
OED	The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edn, ed. J. A. Simpson and E. S. C. Weiner (Oxford, 1989)
Tilley	Morris Palmer Tilley, A Dictionary of the Proverbs in England in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (Ann Arbor, Mich., 1950)
World	John Florio, A Worlde of Wordes (London, 1598)

Other plays of Ford are quoted from the following editions: The Broken Heart, ed. T. J. B. Spencer (Manchester, 1980); The Fancies, Chaste and Noble, ed. Dominick J. Hart (New York and London, 1985); The Sun’s Darling, in The Dramatic Works of Thomas Dekker, ed. Fredson Bowers, (Cambridge, 1953–61). Shakespeare is quoted from The Complete Works, ed. Stanley Wells, Gary Taylor, John Jowett, and William Montgomery (Oxford, 1986), and the Bible from the King James translation of 1611. Other editions cited are: William Barksted and Lewis Machin, The Insatiate Countess, in Four Jacobean Sex Tragedies, ed. Martin Wiggins (Oxford, 1998); Lording Barry, Ram Alley, ed. Peter Corbin and Douglas Sedge (Nottingham, 1981); Thomas Dekker, The Noble Spanish Soldier, in The Dramatic Works, ed. Bowers; John Marston, ‘The Malcontent’ and Other Plays, ed. Keith Sturgess, Oxford English Drama (Oxford, 1997); John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi, ed. Elizabeth M. Brennan (London, 1993); and The Fatal Marriage, ed. S. Brigid Younghughes and Harold Jenkins (Oxford, 1959 for 1958).

In the footnotes to the text:

ed. this edition

s.d stage direction

s.p speech prefix