Loss and the Literary Culture of Shakespeare’s Time

Chapter 1 Introduction: Coping with Loss

Chapter 2 Shakespeare’s Ruined Quires

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

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

Chapter 6 Like a Virgin: Lost and Reborn Ballads

Chapter 7 Rediscovering Lost Literature in the Stationers’ Company Register

Chapter 8 Lost Plays and Other Lost Things: Ways of Being Lost

Chapter 9 Ludwig Becker’s Shakespeare

Chapter 10 William Smith, “The Freeman’s Honour,” and the Lord Chamberlain’s Men

Chapter 11 They Are All Fossils: A Paleontology of Early Modern Drama

Chapter 12 “Histories out of the scriptures”: Biblical Drama in the Repertory of the Admiral’s Men, 1594–1603

Chapter 13 Magic Mirrors, Moors, and Marriage: A Lost English Play Surviving in German

Chapter 14 Making Early Modern “Verbatim Theater,” or, “Keep the Widow Waking”