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Lost Plays in Shakespeare's England / edited by D. McInnis, M. Steggle.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Early Modern Literature in History, 2634-5927
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- European literature--Renaissance, 1450-1600.
- European literature.
- Poetry.
- Literature--Philosophy.
- Literature.
- Early Modern and Renaissance Literature.
- Poetry and Poetics.
- European Literature.
- Literary Theory.
- Local Subjects:
- Early Modern and Renaissance Literature.
- Poetry and Poetics.
- European Literature.
- Literary Theory.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (310 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2014.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781349487127
- 1349487120
- 9781137403971
- 1137403977
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