Loss and the Literary Culture of Shakespeare s Time

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.

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

Auteur

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.

Texte du rabat

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.

Contenu

1. Introduction: Coping with Loss; Roslyn L. Knutson, David McInnis, and Matthew Steggle.- 2. Shakespeare's Ruined Quires; Misha Teramura.- 3.Lost Playhouse Manuscripts; Paul Werstine.- 4. Richard Edwards' Palamon and Arcyte and the Semi-Textual Basis of Playing; Jeanne H. McCarthy.- 5. I haue lost it: Apologies, Appeals, and Justifications for Misplacing The Wild-Goose Chase and Other Plays; Kara J. Northway.- 6. Like a Virgin: Lost and Reborn Ballads; Kris McAbee.- 7. Rediscovering Lost Literature in the Stationers' Company Register; Alexandra Hill.- 8. Lost Plays and Other Lost Things: Ways of Being Lost; William Ingram.- 9. Ludwig Becker's Shakespeare; Ian Donaldson.- 10. William Smith, The Freeman's Honour, and the Lord Chamberlain's Men; David Kathman.- 11. They are all Fossils: A Palaeontology of Early Modern Drama; Matthew Steggle.- 12. Histories out of the scriptures: Biblical Drama in the Repertory of the Admiral's Men, 1594-1603; Paul Whitfield White.- 13. MagicMirrors, Moors, and Marriage: A Lost English Play Surviving in German; David McInnis.- 14. Making Early Modern Verbatim Theater, or, Keep the Widow Waking; Lucy Munro and Emma Whipday