Lost Plays in Shakespeare's England [electronic resource] /
McInnis, D.editor.
Steggle, M.editor.
Lost Plays in Shakespeare's England examines assumptions about what a lost play is and how it can be talked about; how lost plays can be reconstructed, particularly when they use narratives already familiar to playgoers; and how lost plays can force us to reassess extant plays, particularly through ideas of repertory studies.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Notes on the Contributors; A Note on Conventions; Introduction: Nothing Will Come of Nothing? Or, What can we Learn from Plays that Don't Exist?; Part I: What is a Lost Play?; 1 What's a Lost Play?: Toward a Taxonomy of Lost Plays; 2 Ur-Plays and Other Exercises in Making Stuff Up; 3 What is Lost of Shakespearean Plays, Besides a Few Titles?; 4 Lost, or Rather Surviving as a Very Short Document; 5 Lumpers and Splitters; Part II: Working with Lost Plays; 6 "2 Fortune's Tennis" and the Admiral's Men
7 Brute Parts: From Troy to Britain at the Rose, 1595-16008 The Admiral's Lost Arthurian Plays; 9 Lost Plays and the Repertory of Lord Strange's Men; 10 Thomas Watson, Playwright: Origins of Modern English Drama; 11 Lost Stage Friars and their Narratives; 12 Reimagining Gillian: The Merry Wives of Windsor and the Lost "Friar Fox and Gillian of Brentford"; Part III: Moving Forward; 13 Where to Find Lost Plays; Select Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Lost Plays in Shakespeare's England examines assumptions about what a lost play is and how it can be talked about; how lost plays can be reconstructed, particularly when they use narratives already familiar to playgoers; and how lost plays can force us to reassess extant plays, particularly through ideas of repertory studies.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
Literature, Modern.
Poetry.
British literature.
Literature-Philosophy.
Early Modern/Renaissance Literature.
Poetry and Poetics.
British and Irish Literature.
Literary Theory.