Reconstructing lost plays
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Plays have been lost since antiquity. The purpose of the project is to reconstruct them in the English language from available evidence.
Antiquity[edit | edit source]
A Lost Plays Database exits in regard to Greek and Roman plays of antiquity at http://lostgreekplays.com/.
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Most Greek plays of antiquity written by Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides , and Aristophanes have been lost, but the stories may be obtained at least in part through books of Greek mythology, notably The Greek Myths (1955), a compendium assembled by Robert Graves.
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A database of lost English plays exists at http://www.lostplays.org/index.php/Main_Page. One example of a lost play is The History of Cardenio by John Fletcher (playwright) and William Shakespeare, reconstructed by Gary Taylor (scholar)
Another example of a lost English Renaissance play that may be reconstructed is Keep the Widow Waking by John Webster and others.
Keep the Widow Waking[edit | edit source]
A description of the lost play is given at this Internet site:
From that text, we attempt to reconstruct the entire play.
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Wikibooks has a book on the topic of History_of_Western_Theatre:_Greeks_to_Elizabethans. |
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Wikibooks has a book on the topic of History_of_Western_Theatre:_17th_Century_to_Now. |