As explained in chapter 8, in order to provide the fullest possible archive of John Ford's writings, I have drawn not only on the seven plays canonically ascribed to him – Love's Sacrifice, Perkin Warbeck, The Broken Heart, The Fancies, Chaste and Noble, The Lady's Trial, The Lover's Melancholy, and ‘Tis Pity She's a Whore – but also on two plays written by him alone, The Queen and The Laws of Candy, and five extant co-authored plays: The Witch of Edmonton (with Dekker and Rowley), The Spanish Gypsy, The Sun's Darling, The Welsh Ambassador (all three with Dekker), and The Fair Maid of the Inn (with Massinger and Webster). It seems all the more urgent to set out the case for his participation in these co-authored plays since the relevant scholarship has been lost from view in recent discussions of his work. In the authoritative-seeming Dictionary of Literary Biography Paul Cantor dismissed ‘scholars [who] have tried to ascribe to Ford works credited to other playwrights, such as The Spanish Gypsy, published originally as a work by Middleton and Rowley’, not disclosing that those scholars were among the leading authorities in the field, nor discussing the criteria they used.