Overview
- 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)
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“Gone and Loste”: The Nature and Forms of Lostness
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“To know wher a thinge is”: Searching for Answers
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About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Loss and the Literary Culture of Shakespeare’s Time
Editors: Roslyn L. Knutson, David McInnis, Matthew Steggle
Series Title: Early Modern Literature in History
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-36867-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-36866-1Published: 27 March 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-36869-2Published: 27 March 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-36867-8Published: 26 March 2020
Series ISSN: 2634-5919
Series E-ISSN: 2634-5927
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 266
Number of Illustrations: 13 b/w illustrations, 3 illustrations in colour
Topics: Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, Drama, British and Irish Literature, Theatre History, Performing Arts, Literary History