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Lost Plays in Shakespeare s England Edited by David McInnis University of Melbourne, Australia and Matthew Steggle Sheffield Hallam University, UK
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Contents List of Figures Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors A Note on Conventions ix x xi xiii Introduction: Nothing Will Come of Nothing? Or, What can we Learn from Plays that Don t Exist? 1 David McInnis and Matthew Steggle Part I What is a Lost Play? 1 What s a Lost Play?: Toward a Taxonomy of Lost Plays 17 William Proctor Williams 2 Ur-Plays and Other Exercises in Making Stuff Up 31 Roslyn L. Knutson 3 What is Lost of Shakespearean Plays, Besides a Few Titles? 55 Andrew Gurr 4 Lost, or Rather Surviving as a Very Short Document 72 Matthew Steggle 5 Lumpers and Splitters 84 John H. Astington Part II Working with Lost Plays 6 2 Fortune s Tennis and the Admiral s Men 105 David McInnis 7 Brute Parts: From Troy to Britain at the Rose, 1595 1600 127 Misha Teramura 8 The Admiral s Lost Arthurian Plays 148 Paul Whitfield White 9 Lost Plays and the Repertory of Lord Strange s Men 163 Lawrence Manley 10 Thomas Watson, Playwright: Origins of Modern English Drama 187 Michael J. Hirrel vii
viii Contents 11 Lost Stage Friars and their Narratives 208 Christopher Matusiak 12 Reimagining Gillian: The Merry Wives of Windsor and the Lost Friar Fox and Gillian of Brentford 229 Christi Spain-Savage Part III Moving Forward 13 Where to Find Lost Plays 255 Martin Wiggins Select Bibliography 279 Index 282
List of Figures 2.1 Buc signature on the title page of Locrine 46 6.1 Greg s 1904 transcription altered to include Greg s 1931 emendations 109 ix
Acknowledgements This volume of essays has emerged from two main sources. First, the development of the Lost Plays Database (LPD) since 2009, under the general editorship of Roslyn L. Knutson and David McInnis, has played an important role in elevating the visibility of lost plays as an important research field in its own right. We would like to thank the many scholars who have contributed to and supported the LPD and the work it produces, including Reg Foakes who was an Advisory Board member of the LPD until he passed away in December 2013. Without his scholarship on Henslowe s diary and papers, much of our work on lost plays would not be possible. Second, the seminar on Lost Plays in Early Modern England led by David McInnis and Matthew Steggle at the Shakespeare Association of America s meeting in Toronto, 2013 provided an immediate impetus for the present collection. We thank the group of SAA seminar participants (many of whom feature in the present volume) who offered fresh insights and critiques as part of that conference, with especial thanks to Douglas Arrell, Todd Borlik, Jacob Heil, Frederick Kiefer, and David Orvis. We are also grateful to the Australian Research Council (ARC) for funding David McInnis s research on lost plays in the form of a Discovery Project grant (2014 16), which includes work undertaken for this edited collection. Gayle Allan and Joanne Allan kindly assisted with the preparation of this volume, which we greatly appreciate. The British Library provided permission to reproduce an image of Add 10449, f.4 as the cover image for this book. Finally, amongst the many supportive colleagues he is fortunate to work with, David would like to single out Roslyn Knutson in particular for her friendship and intellectual generosity. He thanks his daughter, Imogen, for waiting patiently until this book was finished before making her appearance in the world. His greatest thanks, as usual, is to Emma. Matthew thanks Lisa Hopkins for support and inspiration. And to Clare, Robert, and Helena, he is more grateful than he can say. David McInnis and Matthew Steggle x
Notes on the Contributors John H. Astington is Professor of English and Drama at the University of Toronto. He is the author of over a hundred publications, large and small, including the books English Court Theatre 1558 1642 (1999) and Actors and Acting in Shakespeare s Time (2010). Andrew Gurr is Professor Emeritus at the University of Reading, and former Director of Research at the Shakespeare Globe Centre, London. His academic books include The Shakespearean Stage 1574 1642 (1970), Playgoing in Shakespeare s London (1981), The Shakespearian Playing Companies (1996), The Shakespeare Company 1594 1642 (2004), and Shakespeare s Opposites: The Admiral s Men 1594 1625 (2009). Michael J. Hirrel is a trial and appellate attorney who lives in Arlington, Virginia. He has written scholarly essays concerning Elizabethan drama for Shakespeare Quarterly, Review of English Studies, and Huntington Library Quarterly, performance reviews for Shakespeare Bulletin, and a play, Meet Ben Jonson! He is completing a book about Thomas Kyd s Hamlet. Roslyn L. Knutson, Emerita Professor of English at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, is the author of Playing Companies and Commerce in Shakespeare s Time (2001) and The Repertory of Shakespeare's Company, 1594 1613 (1991). Currently she is studying the commercial theatrical marketplace, 1587 1593, and co-editing the Lost Plays Database. Lawrence Manley is William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of English at Yale University. He is author of Convention, 1500 1750 (1980) and Literature and Culture in Early Modern London (1995), editor of London in the Age of Shakespeare (1985) and The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of London (2010), and co-author with Sally-Beth MacLean of Lord Strange s Men and Their Plays (2014). Christopher Matusiak teaches English at Ithaca College in New York. He has published articles on the politics of theatre management at the Cockpit playhouse in Early Theatre and Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England. Currently he is editing Greene s Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay for the Queen s Men Editions series. David McInnis (University of Melbourne) is currently editing Dekker s Old Fortunatus for the Revels Plays series. In addition to his monograph, xi
xii Notes on the Contributors Mind-Travelling and Voyage Drama in Early Modern England (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), his essays have been published in Review of English Studies; Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England; Studies in English Literature, 1500 1900; Notes & Queries, and elsewhere. With Roslyn L. Knutson, he is founder and co-editor of the Lost Plays Database. Christi Spain-Savage primarily works on women s labour in relation to London neighbourhoods. Her article, The Gendered Place Narratives of Billingsgate Fishwives, is forthcoming in Studies in English Literature, and a collaborative essay, Attending to Fishwives: Views from London and Amsterdam, will soon appear in Gendered Routes and Spaces in the Early Modern World. Matthew Steggle is Professor of English at Sheffield Hallam University. His publications include editions of early modern plays for Richard Brome Online (2010); The Cambridge Works of Ben Jonson (2012); and The Norton Shakespeare, 3rd edition (forthcoming, 2015). His current project is a monograph discussing ten lost plays. Misha Teramura is a doctoral candidate at Harvard University. His work has appeared in Shakespeare Quarterly and is forthcoming in Early Theatre. Paul Whitfield White is Professor of English at Purdue University. His publications in early modern drama include two monographs, Drama and Religion in English Provincial Society 1485 1660 (2008), and Theatre and Reformation (1993), and two essay collections, Shakespeare and Theatrical Patronage, co-edited with Suzanne R. Westfall (2006), and Marlowe, History, and Sexuality (1998). Martin Wiggins is the author of British Drama, 1533 1642: A Catalogue (2012 ). His other works include Shakespeare and the Drama of His Time (2000) and Drama and the Transfer of Power in Renaissance England (2012). William Proctor Williams (University of Akron) has recently published editions of Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, and Richard III and the fourth edition of his An Introduction to Bibliographical and Textual Studies appeared in 2009. He has recently completed editions of four plays by Thomas Heywood for the Oxford Heywood edition.
A Note on Conventions Throughout this volume, extant play titles appear in italics; the titles of lost plays are differentiated through the use of quotation marks. xiii