Lost Plays of Shakespeare S a Cb: Lost Plays Shakespeare
First published in 1971. In writing this text the author’s intent has been as much to tell stories of life and people in Shakespeare's day as to add to our knowledge of the Elizabethan stage and drama or to record texts rescued from their burial in legal evidences and now submitted to the unforeseen test of literary criticism, which they can scarcely abide with equanimity.
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Lost Plays of Shakespeare S a Cb: Lost Plays Shakespeare
First published in 1971. In writing this text the author’s intent has been as much to tell stories of life and people in Shakespeare's day as to add to our knowledge of the Elizabethan stage and drama or to record texts rescued from their burial in legal evidences and now submitted to the unforeseen test of literary criticism, which they can scarcely abide with equanimity.
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Lost Plays of Shakespeare S a Cb: Lost Plays Shakespeare

Lost Plays of Shakespeare S a Cb: Lost Plays Shakespeare

by Charles Jasper Sisson
Lost Plays of Shakespeare S a Cb: Lost Plays Shakespeare

Lost Plays of Shakespeare S a Cb: Lost Plays Shakespeare

by Charles Jasper Sisson

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First published in 1971. In writing this text the author’s intent has been as much to tell stories of life and people in Shakespeare's day as to add to our knowledge of the Elizabethan stage and drama or to record texts rescued from their burial in legal evidences and now submitted to the unforeseen test of literary criticism, which they can scarcely abide with equanimity.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780415761048
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 07/17/2014
Pages: 245
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Preface ix

Chapter I Introductory 1

Chapter II Plays from the London Stage 12

(i) The Old Joiner of Aldgate, by Chapman 12

§ i A Lost Play 12

§ ii The City Heiress and her Suitors 14

§ iii The End of the Story 32

§ iv The Play at St Paul's 57

§ v The Play Reconstructed 72

(ii) Keep the Widow Waking, or The Late Murder in Whitechapely by Dekker, Rowley, Ford and Webster 80

§ i The Old Bailey and Star Chamber 80

§ ii The Adventure of Anne Elsdon 82

§ iii The Murder in Whitechapel 94

§ iv The Play at the Red Bull 97

§ v Dramatists and Actors at Work 110

Chapter III The Jig 125

(i) The Jig 125

(ii) Michael and Frances in Yorkshire 129

§ i A good jest 129

§ ii Michael and Frances 135

(iii) Fool's Fortune in Shropshire 140

§ i A Shropshire Heiress 140

§ ii Fool's Fortune 148

Chapter IV The May Game 157

i The May Game 157

ii The Wells May Game 162

§ i Revels in Wells 162

§ ii William Gamage's Idle Brains 178

§ iii The Quintessence of Wit 183

Chapter V The Libel Proper 186

i The Libel 186

ii The Old Guard at Stratford 188

§ i Riots at Stratford 188

§ ii A Satire to the Chief Rulers 193

§ iii Revenge still brother Rogers shall not live 194

§ iv To any honest Puritan 195

iii Hudibras in Nottingham 196

§ i Civic Dudgeon 196

§ ii My Muse arise and truth then tell 201

§ iii Mary's Church 202

Appendix I Summary of Original Sources 204

II Notes upon the Tunes 206

Index 209

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