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What are the names of any of Shakespeare's unpublished plays?

Question #131784. Asked by Buddy1.
Last updated Jul 08 2013.
Originally posted Jul 08 2013 8:21 AM.

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There are two supoosedly "lost" Shakespearean plays: "Love's Labour's Won" and "Cardenio." There's a great deal of controversy about whether these plays are truly lost plays; many believe they exist, just under a different name. There are likely to be more than just these two. Half the plays that appeared in the First Folio had never been printed before, and it's unlikely the compilers could collect all the plays.

Jul 08 2013, 9:44 AM
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"The Two Noble Kinsmen", which Shakespeare is credited with co-writing with John Fletcher. who took over as dramatist of The King's Men after Shakespeare, was published in 1634.

link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Two_Noble_Kinsmen

No one actually knows who wrote "Arden of Faversham", which was published in 1592.

link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arden_of_Faversham

"A Yorkshire Tragedy" was published in 1608 as the work of Shakespeare, but the modern consensus is that it was written by Thomas Middleton.

link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Yorkshire_Tragedy

The latter two of these works are considered to be part of the "Shakespeare Apocrypha" -- works sometimes attributed to Shakespeare but not believed to be written by him.

link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakespeare_Apocrypha

But the only two plays generally attributed to Shakespeare and "lost" are, as noted above, "Love's Labour Won" and "Carenio" (which, like "The Two Noble Kinsmen", was a Shakespeare-Fletcher co-composition).

link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakespeare_Apocrypha#Lost_plays

"Love's Labour Won" may actually exist under another title, because Shakespeare was known to update plays and change titles. But the question of "Cardenio" (based on a story in "Don Quixote") has fascinated people since the 1600s, as discussed in the Wiki article.

link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardenio

Jul 08 2013, 5:43 PM
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