David McInnis - Loss and the Literary Culture of Shakespeares Time

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Editorial Board

Sharon Achinstein, John Hopkins University, USA

John Kerrigan, University of Cambridge, UK

Richard C. McCoy, Columbia University, USA

Jean Howard, Columbia University, USA

Adam Smyth, University of Oxford, UK

Cathy Shrank, University of Sheffield, UK

Michelle OCallaghan, University of Reading, UK

Steven Zwicker, Washington University, USA

Katie Larson, University of Toronto, Canada

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This collection of essays builds upon and extends the work begun in an earlier volume edited by David McInnis and Matthew Steggle:Lost Plays in Shakespeares England(Palgrave Macmillan, 2014). We are grateful to Ben Doyle, Andrew Hadfield, and Cedric C. Brown for encouraging us to prepare this collection and for providing the opportunity to have it published as a kind of companion volume, in the same series as the earlier book. We thank Camille Davies, Editorial Assistant for Literature at Palgrave at the time that our book was being produced, for her guidance and help along the way, and Rebecca Niles, who provided her expertise with preparing the supplementary materials for publication in the online appendix.

As with the 2014 collection, a number of the chapters in this volume started life as papers written for a Shakespeare Association of America seminar: this time, the seminar was Lost Plays and their Contexts, held in 2017 in Atlanta, GA, and led by the three of us. We thank Douglas Arrell, Anston Bosman, Laurie Johnson, Alan Nelson, June Schlueter and Dennis McCarthy, and Elizabeth E. Tavares, who also contributed to that SAA seminar, as well as the many auditors who made helpful suggestions.

The editors gratefully acknowledge the funding assistance awarded by the Australian Research Council to David McInnis for his Discovery Project, Insights from the Invisible Drama: Shakespeare, Lost Plays and Theatre History, c.15851613 (#DP140102297). As the Editors of theLost Plays Database, we collectively thank the Folger Shakespeare Library (Meaghan Brown and Eric Johnson, in particular) for generously hosting our site since 2018; the bulk of our research simply would not be possible without the international collaboration that the database enables.

David McInnis thanks his familyEmma, Imogen, and Kitfor their love and support, and thanks Allan Myers and John Higgins for their philanthropic funding of the Gerry Higgins Senior Lectureship in Shakespeare Studies at the University of Melbourne (201518). Matthew Steggle thanks the University of Bristol for a sabbatical leave in 2018 to work on this edited collection, and also Sheffield Hallam University for funding the trip to Atlanta in 2017. He is indebted to Lisa Hopkins for many insights, and to Clare, Robert, and Helena: especial thanks to Robert for finding the ammonite. Roslyn Knutson thanks the late Ann Jennalie Cook for designing a seminar structure for the nascent Shakespeare Association of America that has enabled theater historians to share their scholarship annually. Due to the flexibility of that format, the SAA has been instrumental in promoting the discussion of lost plays as well as lostness in fields closely related to the history of early modern English drama.

Cover image: Folger W.b.156,Scrapbooks of J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps [manuscript], [19th century], page 149. By permission of the Folger Shakespeare Library.

Throughout this volume, extant play titles appear in italics; the titles of lost plays are differentiated through the use of quotation marks.