Shakespeare and Lost Plays - Reimagining Drama in Early Modern England

Shakespeare and Lost Plays returns Shakespeare's dramatic work to its most immediate and (arguably) important context: the hundreds of plays known to original audiences, but lost to us, revisiting key moments in Shakespeare's career to provide a richer, more accurate picture of dramatic activity than has hitherto been possible.

List of contents

Introduction; 1. Charting the landscape of loss; 2. Early Shakespeare: 1594-98; 3. Shakespeare at the turn of the century, 1599-1603; 4. Courting controversy: Shakespeare and the king's men, 1604-08; 5. Late Shakespeare: 1609-13; 6. Loose canons: the lost Shakespeare apocrypha; Conclusion.

About the author

David McInnis is Associate Professor of Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama at the University of Melbourne. With Roslyn L. Knutson and Matthew Steggle, he founded and co-edits the Lost Plays Database. He is also co-editor of Lost Plays in Shakespeare's England (2014) and a sequel volume, Loss and the Literary Culture of Shakespeare's Time (2020). His other books include Mind-Travelling and Voyage Drama in Early Modern England (2013), Travel and Drama in Early Modern England: The Journeying Play (with Claire Jowitt, Cambridge, 2018), Tamburlaine: A Critical Reader (2020), and the Revels Plays edition of Dekker's Old Fortunatus (2020).

Summary

Shakespeare and Lost Plays returns Shakespeare's dramatic work to its most immediate and (arguably) important context: the hundreds of plays known to original audiences, but lost to us, revisiting key moments in Shakespeare's career to provide a richer, more accurate picture of dramatic activity than has hitherto been possible.

Product details

• Authors: David Mcinnis, David (University of Melbourne) Mcinnis, McInnis David
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.02.2023
• EAN: 9781108824156
• ISBN: 978-1-108-82415-6
• No. of pages: 237
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; POETRY / General, Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, DRAMA / Shakespeare, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: general, Shakespeare Studies & Criticism, Literary studies: poetry and poets, Classic and pre-20th century plays, Shakespeare Plays, Relating to Shakespeare / Shakespearean