What was the name of the play known to have been written by Shakespeare as a sequel to 'Love's Labour's Lost', but for which no manuscript has ever been found?
"""Sycorax"" to Shakespeare, Shakespeare says that he will use the name (the joke is that the name in fact derives from Caliban's mother in Shakespeare's play ""The Tempest"".) Other sequences include subtle references to much earlier episodes. One of the putative lines of ""Love's Labour's Won"", ""the eye should have contentment where it rests"", is taken from episode three of the 1965 serial ""The Crusade"" — a story consciously written in Shakespearean style. The episode concerns the ""lost"" Shakespeare play ""Love's Labour's Won"", which is referred to in more than one historical document, but which may be just an alternative"
"must be observed that Elizabethan playwrights almost never wrote sequels to comedies. Sequels were written for historical plays or, less commonly, for tragedies. Another theory is that ""Love's Labour's Won"" was an alternative name for an existing play. This would explain why it was not printed under that name in the First Folio of Shakespeare's complete dramatic works in 1623, for which the sequel theory has no obvious explanation. A longtime theory held that ""Love's Labour's Won"" was an alternative name for ""The Taming of the Shrew"", which had been written several years earlier and is noticeably missing from Meres'"
"Love's Labour's Won Love's Labour's Won is a lost play attributed by contemporaries to William Shakespeare, written before 1598 and published by 1603, though no copies are known to have survived. Scholars dispute whether it is a true lost work, possibly a sequel to ""Love's Labour's Lost"", or an alternative title to a known Shakespeare play. The first mention of the play occurs in Francis Meres' ""Palladis Tamia, Wits Treasury"" (1598) in which he lists a dozen Shakespeare plays. His list of Shakespearean comedies reads: The August 1603 book list of the stationer Christopher Hunt lists the play as printed"
"Love's Labour's Won Love's Labour's Won is a lost play attributed by contemporaries to William Shakespeare, written before 1598 and published by 1603, though no copies are known to have survived. Scholars dispute whether it is a true lost work, possibly a sequel to ""Love's Labour's Lost"", or an alternative title to a known Shakespeare play. The first mention of the play occurs in Francis Meres' ""Palladis Tamia, Wits Treasury"" (1598) in which he lists a dozen Shakespeare plays. His list of Shakespearean comedies reads: The August 1603 book list of the stationer Christopher Hunt lists the play as printed"
"Shakespeare originally titled his Shrew play ""Love's Labour's Won"" in order to distinguish it from the rival play. Yet another possibility is that the name is an alternative title for another Shakespearean comedy not listed by Meres or Hunt. ""Much Ado About Nothing"", commonly believed to be written around 1598, is often suggested. For example, Henry Woudhuysen's Arden edition (third series) of ""Love's Labour's Lost"" lists a number of striking similarities between the two plays. ""Much Ado about Nothing"" is also listed under another alternative title, ""Benedick and Beatrice"", in several book sellers' catalogues. Leslie Hotson speculated that ""Love's Labour's"
"in quarto among other works by Shakespeare: Shakespeare scholars have several theories about the play. One theory is that ""Love's Labour's Won"" may be a lost sequel to ""Love's Labour's Lost"", depicting the further adventures of the King of Navarre, Berowne, Longaville, and Dumain, whose marriages were delayed at the end of ""Love's Labour's Lost"". In the final moments of ""Love's Labour's Lost"" the weddings that customarily close Shakespeare's comedies are unexpectedly deferred for a year without any obvious plot purpose, which would allow for a sequel. Critic Cedric Watts imagined what a sequel might look like: Against this it"
"to Shakespeare's audiences. Scholars suggest that the play lost popularity as these historical and political portrayals of Navarre's court became dated and less accessible to theatergoers of later generations. The play's sophisticated wordplay, pedantic humour and dated literary allusions may also be reasons for its relative obscurity, as compared with Shakespeare's more popular works. ""Love's Labour's Lost"" was staged rarely in the 19th century, but it has been seen more often in the 20th and 21st centuries, with productions by both the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre, among others. It has also been adapted as a musical, an"
"Thomas of Woodstock (play) Thomas of Woodstock and Richard the Second Part One are two names for an untitled, anonymous and apparently incomplete manuscript of an Elizabethan play depicting events in the reign of King Richard II. Attributions of the play to William Shakespeare have been nearly universally rejected, and it does not appear in major editions of the Shakespeare apocrypha. The play has been often cited as a possible influence on Shakespeare's ""Richard II"", as well as ""Henry IV, Parts 1"" and ""2"", but new dating of the text brings that relationship into question. The play survives only as"
"The Second Shepherds' Play The Second Shepherds' Play (also known as The Second Shepherds' Pageant) is a famous medieval mystery play which is contained in the manuscript HM1, the unique manuscript of the Wakefield Cycle. These plays are also referred to as the Towneley Plays, on account of the manuscript residing at Towneley Hall. The plays within the manuscript roughly follow the chronology of the Bible and so were believed to be a cycle, which is now considered not to be the case. This play gained its name because in the manuscript it immediately follows another nativity play involving the"
"play and performed a version for some time, which Shakespeare reworked. However, since no copy of the ""Ur-Hamlet"" has survived, it is impossible to compare its language and style with the known works of any of its putative authors. Consequently, there is no direct evidence that Kyd wrote it, nor any evidence that the play was not an early version of ""Hamlet"" by Shakespeare himself. This latter idea—placing ""Hamlet"" far earlier than the generally accepted date, with a much longer period of development—has attracted some support. The upshot is that scholars cannot assert with any confidence how much material Shakespeare"
"Love's Labour's Lost (film) Love's Labour's Lost is a 2000 adaptation the comic play ""Love's Labour's Lost"" by William Shakespeare, directed by and starring Kenneth Branagh. The first feature film to be made of this lesser-known comedy, Branagh's fourth film of a Shakespeare play was a box-office and critical disappointment. Branagh's film turns ""Love's Labour's Lost"" into a romantic Hollywood musical. Set and costume design evoke the Europe of 1939; the music (classic Broadway songs of the 1930s) and newsreel-style footage are also chief period details. The cast includes Shakespearean veterans such as Timothy Spall, Richard Briers and Geraldine McEwan,"
"Consequently, there is no direct evidence that Kyd wrote it, nor any evidence that the play was not an early version of ""Hamlet"" by Shakespeare himself. This latter idea—placing ""Hamlet"" far earlier than the generally accepted date, with a much longer period of development—has attracted some support, though others dismiss it as speculation. Francis Meres's ""Palladis Tamia"" (published in 1598, probably October) provides a list of twelve named Shakespeare plays, but ""Hamlet"" is not among them. This is not conclusive, however, as other then-extant Shakespeare plays were not on Meres' list either. The upshot is that scholars cannot assert with"
"was ""almost certainly"" set into type from a Crane transcript. None of Crane's Shakespearean manuscripts have survived; but Crane scripts of several other works are extant, in addition to the one for ""The Witch"" noted above. Two of the six extant manuscripts of Middleton's ""A Game at Chess"" are from Crane's hand. (Crane consistently changed all of Middleton's uses of ""has"" to ""hath"" in those transcripts, illustrating the complexities involved in using discriminators like ""has/hath"" and ""does/doth"" in stylometry studies.) The play ""Sir John van Olden Barnavelt,"" never printed in its own era, survived to modern times in a single"
"""Love's Labour's Won"" is considered by some to be a lost sequel. ""Love’s Labour’s Lost"" features the longest scene in all of Shakespeare’s plays (5.2), which, depending upon formatting and editorial decisions, ranges from around 920 lines to just over 1000 lines. The First Folio records the scene at 942 lines. The play also features the single longest word in all of Shakespeare's plays: ""honorificabilitudinitatibus"", spoken by Costard at 5.1.30. The speech given by Berowne at 4.3.284–361 is potentially the longest in all of Shakespeare's plays, depending on editorial choices. Shakespeare critic and editor Edward Capell has pointed out that"
"every play destroyed by Warburton's cook was irretrievably lost. Five of them have been preserved through separate sources. These include ""Believe as You List"", ""The Fair Favorite"", ""The Governor"", ""The Inconstant Lady"", and ""The Parliament of Love"". The prologue and epilogue to Thomas Jordan's ""Love Hath Found His Eyes"" are also still extant, published in Jordan's poetry collection ""Royal Arbor of Loyal Poesy"" (1663). It is possible that a few of the remaining plays have also been preserved, under different titles; Shakespeare's ""Duke Humphrey"", for example, may have been a version of ""Henry VI, part 2,"" in which Humphrey plays"
"John of Bordeaux John of Bordeaux, or The Second Part of Friar Bacon, is an Elizabethan era stage play, the anonymous sequel to Robert Greene's ""Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay."" The play was never printed in its own historical era and survived in a single, untitled, defective manuscript until it was named and published in 1936. It is usually dated to the 1590–94 period, shortly after the success of Greene's original ""Friar Bacon."" The sole extant original text of ""John of Bordeaux"" is MS. 507 in the Duke of Northumberland's Library at Alnwick Castle. It gives the appearance of being"
"Celimene, and Sophie are not mentioned in the play, and they have no lines in the film. This, however, is a standard feature of Branagh's Shakespeare adaptations; his ""Hamlet"" contains many non-speaking walk-on roles that are not included in the original play, but are mentioned in the cast list. Branagh became interested in the play during his 1984 season with the Royal Shakespeare Company, when he had played the King of Navarre. From that period, he was familiar with Harley Granville-Barker's famous essay arguing that ""Love's Labour's Lost"" could be treated as highly stylised, with the dialogue and action treated"
"Love's Labour's Lost Love's Labour's Lost is one of William Shakespeare's early comedies, believed to have been written in the mid-1590s for a performance at the Inns of Court before Queen Elizabeth I. It follows the King of Navarre and his three companions as they attempt to swear off the company of women for three years of study and fasting. Their subsequent infatuation with the Princess of France and her ladies makes them forsworn. In an untraditional ending for a comedy, the play closes with the death of the Princess's father, and all weddings are delayed for a year. The"
"Shakespeare's plays had been published in quarto before 1623, the First Folio is arguably the only reliable text for about 20 of the plays, and a valuable source text for many of those previously published. The Folio includes all of the plays generally accepted to be Shakespeare's, with the exception of ""Pericles, Prince of Tyre""; ""The Two Noble Kinsmen""; and the two lost plays, ""Cardenio"" and ""Love's Labour's Won"". On 23 April 1616, William Shakespeare died in Stratford-upon-Avon, and was buried in the chancel of the Church of the Holy Trinity two days later. After a long career as an"
"(1951) is generally cited, but fails to make use of an important witness, the seventeenth century copy of a lost manuscript from Reims. The ending of the work is missing (although evidently the plot is complete and very little text has been lost). In the manuscripts, it is followed without a break by the (also fragmentary) ""Lex convivalis"", which some regard as a part of the play. Querolus Querolus (""The Complainer"") or Aulularia (""The Pot"") is an anonymous Latin comedy from late antiquity, the only Latin drama to survive from this period and the only ancient Latin comedy outside the"
"how quickly these capitalists dry up under the magic influence of the words 'cash down'."" In 1895, with Richard D'Oyly Carte struggling to rediscover success at the Savoy, he once again proposed a revival of ""Thespis"", but the idea was not pursued. No mention of the whereabouts of the music of ""Thespis"" exists since 1897, and scholars have searched for it among many of the extant collections. Except for two songs and some ballet music, it is presumed lost. The reasons why ""Thespis"" went unrevived are not known. Some commentators speculate that Sullivan used the music in his other operas."
"the binding of a book of sermons published in 1637, one dated August 1603 and the other September 1607. On the verso of the 1603 sheet a list of 16 ""[inter]ludes and tragedyes"" sold from 9 to 17 August 1603 was found. The list included four of Shakespeare’s plays, Merchant of Venice, The Taming of a Shrew, Love's Labour's Lost, and Love's Labour's Won, a play that had been mentioned by Francis Meres in his ""Palladis Tamia"", (1598) but for which no other evidence had been found. The find provided evidence that the play was in fact a unique work"
"Armado announces he will swear a similar oath to Jaquenetta and then presents the nobles with a song. ""Love's Labour's Lost"" is, along with Shakespeare's ""The Tempest"", a play without any obvious sources. Some possible influences on ""Love's Labour's Lost"" can be found in the early plays of John Lyly, Robert Wilson's ""The Cobbler's Prophecy"" (c.1590) and Pierre de la Primaudaye's ""L'Academie française"" (1577). Michael Dobson and Stanley Wells comment that it has often been conjectured that the plot derives from ""a now lost account of a diplomatic visit made to Henry in 1578 by Catherine de Medici and her"
"Love's Labour's Lost (opera) Love's Labour's Lost is an opera by Nicolas Nabokov, written by W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman, based on Shakespeare's play of the same name. It was first performed in Brussels on 7 February 1973. While Nabokov was in New York, preparing a ballet revival, Lincoln Kirstein initiated talks with W. H. Auden who was looking for an opera project and had already contacted Michael Tippett and Harrison Birtwistle. The composer read Shakespeare's play ""Love's Labour's Lost"" again, and found similarities to Mozart's ""Così fan tutte"" in its ""stylized, deliberately artificial plot"". Auden and Nabokov discussed"
"makes several references to various plays by Shakespeare, both real and fictional. Some existing plays, such as ""Hamlet"" and ""As You Like It"", are given new names (""The Prince of Denmark"" and ""If You Like It""), and presumably different content. Another play mentioned, ""Love's Labour's Won"", is the title of an actual lost play by Shakespeare, presumed to be a sequel to the existing ""Love's Labour's Lost"". Christopher Marlowe, who historically died in 1593, lives until October or November 1598 in the novel. As well as his known plays, the novel creates two imaginary Marlowe plays, ""Catiline"" and"" Cambyses, King"
"by the publisher Humphrey Moseley after the closure of the theatres in 1642. In 1807, the manuscript was acquired by the British Museum. Victorian Poet and critic, Algernon Swinburne, was the first to attribute this work to Thomas Middleton; this judgement has since been joined by most editors and scholars. The play has received few modern revivals. It was the opening production at the newly refurbished Hackney Empire studio in 2006 starring Alexander Fiske-Harrison and Jos Vantyler. The play's original title is unknown. The manuscript bears no title, and the censor, George Buc, added a note beginning ""This second ""Maiden's"
"Love's Labours Lost, Love Labours Won, Midsummer Night's Dream"", and ""Merchant of Venice""; ""Tragedy"": ""Richard II, Richard III, Henry the IV, King John, Titus Andronicus"", and"" Romeo and Juliet""), establishing their composition before 1598. This passage has sometimes been taken to indicate that only those Shakespeare plays had been written by 1598. However, there is no way of knowing how complete Meres' knowledge of the published plays actually was or whether he even intended to produce a comprehensive list of all the plays; at the very least, it is generally agreed that Meres neglects ""The Taming of the Shrew"" (1590–91),"
"print that Shakespeare did not write the works bearing his name. Hart claimed that Shakespeare was a ""mere ""factotum"" of the theatre"", a ""vulgar and unlettered man"" hired to add obscene jokes to the plays of other writers. Hart does not suggest that there was any conspiracy, merely that evidence of the real authors's identities had been lost when the plays were published. Hart asserts that Shakespeare had been ""dead for one hundred years and utterly forgotten"" when old playscripts formerly owned by him were discovered and published under his name by Nicholas Rowe and Thomas Betterton. He speculates that"
"large estate. The language of the will is mundane and unpoetic and makes no mention of personal papers, books, poems, or the 18 plays that remained unpublished at the time of his death. Its only theatrical reference—monetary gifts to fellow actors to buy mourning rings—was interlined after the will had been written, casting suspicion on the authenticity of the bequests. Any public mourning of Shakespeare's death went unrecorded, and no eulogies or poems memorialising his death were published until seven years later as part of the front matter in the First Folio of his plays. Oxfordians think that the phrase"
"text substantially, almost doubling its length, and introduced the hero's melancholy. Shakespeare's main source is believed to be an earlier play—now lost—known today as the ""Ur-Hamlet"". Possibly written by Thomas Kyd, the ""Ur-Hamlet"" would have been in performance by 1589, and was seemingly the first to include a ghost in the story. Shakespeare's company, the Chamberlain's Men, may have purchased that play and performed a version, which Shakespeare reworked, for some time. Since no copy of the ""Ur-Hamlet"" has survived, however, it is impossible to compare its language and style with the known works of any candidate for its authorship."
"an anonymous, untitled and incomplete manuscript, part of a collection of fifteen plays in the British Library catalogued as MS. Egerton 1994. The collection was discovered by James Halliwell-Phillipps, and also includes ""Edmund Ironside"", another play whose authorship has been attributed by some scholars to William Shakespeare. The collection was compiled by a seventeenth century actor in the King's Revels Men, William Cartwright (ca. 1606–1686; not to be confused with his contemporary poet/dramatist of the same name), who later became a bookseller and collector of plays during the English Civil War. There is no confirmed recorded production of the play"
"were taken of his death in diplomatic correspondence or newsletters on the continent, nor were any tributes published by European contemporaries. William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke—who at the time held the post of Lord Chamberlain, with authority over the King's Men, and directly in charge of Shakespeare as a Groom of the Chamber—made no note of his passing. Shakespeare's works—both poetic and dramatic—had a rich history in print before the publication of the First Folio: from the first publications of ""Venus and Adonis"" (1593) and ""The Rape of Lucrece"" (1594), 78 individual printed editions of his works are known."
"and prints, which were sold by auction in 1766. Many of his topographical manuscripts are in the Lansdowne collection at the British Museum. In addition, ""A Play by William Shakespeare"" (with no elaboration given) was also lost, as well as a copy of Sir John Suckling's ""Works,"" possibly a printed edition. Warburton listed only three plays which escaped destruction: ""The Second Maiden's Tragedy"" (which he assigned to George Chapman, but now usually considered by scholars to be the work of Thomas Middleton), ""The Queen of Corsica"" (a tragedy by Francis Jaques), and ""The Bugbears"" (a comedy by John Jeffere). Not"