Lost Plays Database

The Lost Plays Database, a wiki-style forum for scholars to share information about lost plays in England, 1570-1642.
Tweets by @MatthewSteggle & @dnmcinnis

[Lost Plays Database @lostplaysdb]

The rumours are true! We're thrilled to announce that the Lost Plays Database has a new home: the Folger Shakespeare Library! https://t.co/HlXKL5WbXC

[Australian Academy of the Humanities @HumanitiesAU]

In 1614, Alice Mustian staged a play about a neighbour's affair in her backyard, casting local children in the production. The play resulted in a defamation trial. A scandalous must-read by @dnmcinnis FAHA @MatthewSteggle & Misha Teramura @ConversationEDU https://t.co/122VQi9q92

[Matthew Steggle @MatthewSteggle]

Our article is out! Open-access at RES. Co-written by Misha Teramura, @dnmcinnis, and me in shifts around the clock. It was a lot of fun to do. https://t.co/Ggo4ROCtzN (1/4)

[ThatShakespeareLife @ThatShakespeare]

NEW EPISODE: Explore the history of lost plays with our guest, Roslyn Knutson. Learn not only what happened to the original plays, but discover what artifacts survive to tell the tale. https://t.co/ledw3SMMKe #ThatShakespeareLife

[Early Theatre @early_theatre]

In Shakespeare and Lost Plays: Reimagining Drama in Early Modern England (@CambridgeUP), David McInnis provides 'one of the most ambitious studies of lost drama yet attempted' according to our reviewer @eoin_price. See ET 25.1 for more!

[Cambridge UP - Literature & Performance @CUP_LitPerform]

"Only a fraction of the world’s stories have survived. What might we be missing?"

Read this new @guardian interview by Laura Spinney, with Cambridge author David McInnis, which references his fascinating title Shakespeare and Lost Plays
@dnmcinnis @lostplaysdb #Shakespeare

[Tom Rutter @Obscure_drama]

It was great to see @dnmcinnis in Saturday's Guardian! https://t.co/mS1ywXqMoq

[ThatShakespeareLife @ThatShakespeare]

Check out this thread. 🤩 Tons of great resources here. Some of my favorites are @FolgerLibrary @ShakespeareBT @lostplaysdb and @laBnF what are some you use all the time?

[Cambridge UP - Literature & Performance @CUP_LitPerform]

Shakespeare and Lost Plays: Reimagining Drama in Early Modern England by @dnmcinnis was shorted for the 2021 AUHE Prize for Literary Scholarship! Take a look at what the judges had to say in the image below 📚 #shakespeare

[Henslowe as a Blog @HensloweAsaBlog]

A post in which I say thank you to the many brilliant scholars who made the Henslowe blog possible! https://t.co/YJhd4reubl #theatre #scholars #theatrehistory #elizabethan

[claire m. l. bourne @roaringgirle]

in LOST / FOUND, misha teramura shows that there is no such thing as ‘pure textual presence’ when it comes to e.m. plays. focusing on the fragmentary & lacunose texts around LOVE’S LABOUR’S LOST & LOVE’S LABOUR’S WON, he argues that plays exist on a spectrum between lost & found

[Folger Shakespeare Library @FolgerLibrary]

The history of early modern drama is like a block of swiss cheese history with more holes than cheese. @dnmcinnis, co-founder of the Lost Plays Database, explains why it's critical to study the thousands of early modern plays that are currently lost. https://t.co/3gJY6NOR57

[Lost Plays Database @lostplaysdb]

@mj_kidnie CC @FolgerLibrary — Thanks MJ; recent changes from before the crash seem to have disappeared too. Hoping that can be fixed soon. Thanks for alerting us to this particular glitch. -DM

[Lost Plays Database @lostplaysdb]

We’re back online!

Now, instead of looking at a site that doesn’t exist, you can once more look at entries about plays that don’t exist.

[CambShakespeare @CambShakespeare]

Watch David McInnis and Matthew Steggle discussing 'Shakespeare and Lost Plays' during our online launch event for the book!
📽️ https://t.co/SKNw63PXg7
@dnmcinnis @lostplaysdb

[Folger Shakespeare Library @FolgerLibrary]

Was "Hamlet" part of a larger trend of plays set in Denmark? On a new episode of Shakespeare Unlimited, @dnmcinnis tells us how studying the early modern period's lost plays can shine new light on the ones that survive. https://t.co/3gJY6NOR57

[The Dolphin's Back @DolphinsBack]

Rescuing lost plays...

@dnmcinnis of the University of Melbourne and The Lost Plays Database talks about his new discoveries and book
@UniMelb @lostplaysdb

https://t.co/aBMitbMUwn

[Folger Shakespeare Library @FolgerLibrary]

We have the texts of only one-sixth of the plays of Shakespeare's England. The Lost Plays Database (@lostplaysdb) records the traces of the roughly three thousand others. We interview co-founder David McInnis (@dnmcinnis): https://t.co/3gJY6NOR57.

[Cambridge University Press Bookshop @CUPBookshop]

4/6 New Books: Shakespeare and Lost Plays - Reimagining Drama in Early Modern England, by @dnmcinnis, @UniMelb https://t.co/NXYbXsMJwK

[Cambridge UP - Literature & Performance @CUP_LitPerform]

How can we study things that don’t exist? Read the blog post by David McInnis, author of #Shakespeare and Lost Plays here: https://t.co/14yhAijqZr @dnmcinnis

[Lost Plays Database @lostplaysdb]

Book launch time! 🥳

Join us on Thursday 1st of April, 2-3pm BST, for the launch of *Shakespeare and Lost Plays* by @dnmcinnis!

Register for the webinar here: https://t.co/PzzyQwXHUO