Lost Plays in Shakespeare's England

Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors A Note on Convention Introduction Nothing Will Come of Nothing? Or, What Can We Learn from Plays that Don't Exist?; David McInnis and Matthew Steggle PART I: WHAT IS A LOST PLAY? 1. What's a Lost Play?: Toward a Taxonomy of Lost Plays; William Proctor Williams 2. Ur-Plays and other exercises in Making Stuff Up; Roslyn L. Knutson 3. What is Lost of Shakespearean Plays, Besides a Few Titles?; Andrew Gurr 4. Lost, or Rather Surviving as a Very Short Document; Matthew Steggle 5. Lumpers and Splitters; John H. Astington PART II: WORKING WITH LOST PLAYS 6. '2 Fortune's Tennis' and the Admiral's Men; David McInnis 7. Brute Parts: From Troy to Britain at the Rose, 1595–1600; Misha Teramura 8. The Admiral's Lost Arthurian Plays; Paul Whitfield White 9. Lost Plays and the Repertory of Lord Strange's Men; Lawrence Manley 10. Thomas Watson, Playwright: Origins of Modern English Drama; Michael J. Hirrel 11. Lost Stage Friars and their Narratives; Christopher Matusiak 12. Reimagining Gillian: The Merry Wives of Windsor and the Lost 'Friar Fox and Gillian of Brentford'; Christi Spain-Savage PART III: MOVING FORWARD 13. Where to Find Lost Plays; Martin Wiggins Bibliography Index