Lost Plays in Shakespeare’s England

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Introduction: Nothing Will Come of Nothing? Or, What can we Learn from Plays that Don’t Exist?....Pages 1-14
Front Matter....Pages 15-15
What’s a Lost Play?: Toward a Taxonomy of Lost Plays....Pages 17-30
Ur-Plays and Other Exercises in Making Stuff Up....Pages 31-54
What is Lost of Shakespearean Plays, Besides a Few Titles?....Pages 55-71
Lost, or Rather Surviving as a Very Short Document....Pages 72-83
Lumpers and Splitters....Pages 84-102
Front Matter....Pages 103-103
“2 Fortune’s Tennis” and the Admirars Men....Pages 105-126
Brute Parts: From Troy to Britain at the Rose, 1595–1600....Pages 127-147
The Admiral’s Lost Arthurian Plays....Pages 148-162
Lost Plays and the Repertory of Lord Strange’s Men....Pages 163-186
Thomas Watson, Playwright: Origins of Modern English Drama....Pages 187-207
Lost Stage Friars and their Narratives....Pages 208-228
Reimagining Gillian: The Merry Wives of Windsor and the Lost “Friar Fox and Gillian of Brentford....Pages 229-252
Front Matter....Pages 253-253
Where to Find Lost Plays....Pages 255-278
Back Matter....Pages 279-295