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Shakespeare and lost plays : reimagining drama in early modern England / David McInnis.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Furness Shakespeare Library (Van Pelt 628) PR658.L6 M35 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McInnis, David, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Contemporaries.
- Shakespeare, William.
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
- English drama--Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600--History and criticism.
- English drama.
- English drama--17th century--History and criticism.
- Lost literature--England.
- Lost literature.
- Contemporaries.
- English drama--Early modern and Elizabethan.
- England.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 223 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2021.
- Summary:
- "Shakespeare and Lost Plays returns Shakespeare's dramatic work to its most immediate and (arguably) pivotal context; by situating it alongside the hundreds of plays known to Shakespeare's original audiences, but lost to us. David McInnis reassesses the value of lost plays in relation to both the companies that originally performed them, and to contemporary scholars of early modern drama. This innovative study revisits key moments in Shakespeare's career and the development of his company and, by prioritising the immense volume of information we now possess about lost plays, provides a richer, more accurate picture of dramatic activity than has hitherto been possible. By considering a variety of ways to grapple with the problem of lost, imperceptible, or ignored texts, this volume presents a methodology for working with lacunae in archival evidence and the distorting effect of Shakespeare-centric narratives, thus reinterpreting our perception of the field of early modern drama"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Why Do Plays Become Lost?
- A Case Study: `Love's Labour's Won'
- Where to from Here?
- Lost Plays and Rubin's Vase
- 1. Charting the Landscape of Loss
- Lost Plays and Shakespeare's Company
- The Value of Lost Plays
- The Composition of a Company's Repertory: The Admiral's Men
- 2. Early Shakespeare: 1594
- 1598
- `Beginning at Newington': 1594
- Moving to the Curtain: 1597
- 3. Shakespeare at the Turn of the Century: 1599
- 1603
- Love and War: `Owen Tudor' and Henry V
- Denmark without Shakespeare
- Hamlet and `felmelanco'
- 4. Courting Controversy
- Shakespeare and the King's Men: 1604
- 1608
- `[T]he tragedie of Gowrie'
- A Tragidye of The Spanishe Maz:'
- The Blackfriars: 1608
- 5. Late Shakespeare: 1609
- 1613
- Recycling Romance
- Shakespeare and the King's Men at Court: 1612
- What Was `Cardenio'?
- `Cardenio' at Court: 1612
- 6. Loose Canons: The Lost Shakespeare Apocrypha
- `Henry P and `Henry II'
- `Duke Humphrey', with a Note on `King Stephen' and `Iphis and Ianthe'
- `Eurialus and Lucretia'.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.
- Other Format:
- Online version: McInnis, David. Shakespeare and lost plays
- ISBN:
- 9781108843263
- 1108843263
- 9781108824156
- 1108824153
- OCLC:
- 1198087695
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