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Loss and the Literary Culture of Shakespeare’s Time

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Editors:
  1. Roslyn L. Knutson

    1. University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Little Rock, USA

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  2. David McInnis

    1. University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

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  3. Matthew Steggle

    1. University of Bristol, Bristol, UK

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  • Rethinks our understanding of what remains from the early modern playhouse and how we reconstruct the staging of early modern drama
  • Reaches out beyond lost plays to cognate forms of cultural history for which the evidence is similarly lost or incomplete or affected by preservation bias
  • Considers topics such as the idea of “lostness” for dramatic and non-dramatic works; the place of lost texts in genealogies and corpora of surviving texts; the reliability and uses of evidence; the adequacy of current terminology and methodologies for dealing with lostness; the role of digital and non-digital resources in investigating lost texts

Part of the book series: Early Modern Literature in History (EMLH)

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Introduction: Coping with Loss

    • Roslyn L. Knutson, David McInnis, Matthew Steggle
    Pages 1-19

  3. “Gone and Loste”: The Nature and Forms of Lostness

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 21-21
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    2. Shakespeare’s Ruined Quires

      • Misha Teramura
      Pages 23-40

    3. Lost Playhouse Manuscripts

      • Paul Werstine
      Pages 41-54

    4. Richard Edwards’ “Palamon and Arcyte” and the Semi-Textual Basis of Playing

      • Jeanne H. McCarthy
      Pages 55-73

    5. “I haue lost it”: Apologies, Appeals, and Justifications for Misplacing The Wild-Goose Chase and Other Plays

      • Kara J. Northway
      Pages 75-93

    6. Like a Virgin: Lost and Reborn Ballads

      • Kris McAbee
      Pages 95-110

    7. Rediscovering Lost Literature in the Stationers’ Company Register

      • Alexandra Hill
      Pages 111-127

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 251-266
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About this book

As early modernists with an interest in the literary culture of Shakespeare’s time, we work in a field that contains many significant losses: of texts, of contextual information, of other forms of cultural activity. No account of early modern literary culture is complete without acknowledgment of these lacunae, and although lost drama has become a topic of increasing interest in Shakespeare studies, it is important to recognize that loss is not restricted to play-texts alone. Loss and the Literary Culture of Shakespeare’s Time broadens the scope of the scholarly conversation about loss beyond drama and beyond London. It aims to develop further models and techniques for thinking about lost plays, but also of other kinds of lost early modern works, and even lost persons associated with literary and theatrical circles. Chapters examine textual corruption, oral preservation, quantitative analysis, translation, and experiments in “verbatim theater”, plus much more.  

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Little Rock, USA

    Roslyn L. Knutson

  • University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

    David McInnis

  • University of Bristol, Bristol, UK

    Matthew Steggle

About the editors

Roslyn L. Knutson, Professor Emerita at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, is the author of The Repertory of Shakespeare's Company, 1594-1613 (U of Ark P 1991), author of Playing Companies and Commerce in Shakespeare’s Time (CUP 2001), and co-editor with Kirk Melnikoff of Christopher Marlowe, Theatrical Commerce, and the Book Trade (CUP 2018). With David McInnis and Matthew Steggle, she is founder and co-editor of the Lost Plays Database.


David McInnis (University of Melbourne) is author of Mind-Travelling and Voyage Drama in Early Modern England (Palgrave, 2013), co-editor (with Claire Jowitt) of Travel and Drama in Early Modern England: The Journeying Play (Cambridge UP, 2018), and editor of Dekker’s Old Fortunatus for the Revels Plays series (Manchester UP, 2019). With Matthew Steggle, he edited Lost Plays in Shakespeare’s England (Palgrave, 2014). With Roslyn L. Knutsonand Matthew Steggle, he is founder and co-editor of the Lost Plays Database.


Matthew Steggle is Professor of Early Modern English Literature at the University of Bristol. 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 (2015). His most recent book is Digital Humanities and the Lost Drama of Early Modern England: Ten Case Studies (2015). With Martin Butler, he is co-editor of the forthcoming Oxford Works of John Marston (forthcoming, 2021) for which he is editing Jack Drum’s Entertainment, and he is co-editor, with Roslyn L. Knutson and David McInnis, of the Lost Plays Database.

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