Long-Lost Shakespeare Sequel Discovered
Stratford-Upon-Avon, UK- Jane Livingstone, a doctoral student at Oxford University discovered a long-lost play by playwright William Shakespeare, last week.
According to a statement that Livingstone released yesterday, she discovered the play while conducting research of the lesser known works of William Shakespeare for her doctoral dissertation.
“We are proud to announce the discovery of what is believed to be the only remaining manuscript of ‘The Friar and The Nurse’. Which we have dated to between 1594-1597” members of Oxford University’s Shakespeare Society announced in a press confrence early Wednesday.
Though the play, which is a sequel to Shakespeare’s 1594 tragedy Romeo and Juliet, following a subsequent love affair between [Romeo’s confidant] Friar Lawrence and Juliet’s Nurse, has only recently been discovered, it is mentioned in numerous Shakespeare contemperaries.
In his 1598 when speaking of Shakespeare, Sir Thomas Quinn said, “He hath giv’n the public many plays. Amongst them the merry comedy Loves Labours Lost, the most sad tragedy Romeo and Juliet, and its most successful follow-on The Friar and The Nurse.”
The recent discovery of the play has excited the literary community at large, who are delighted by the appearance of a genuine lost Shakespeare play, after the appearance of other “Shakespeare plays” generally of spurious origin.
The manuscript will make its way to the British Library in London to be authenticated.
According to a statement that Livingstone released yesterday, she discovered the play while conducting research of the lesser known works of William Shakespeare for her doctoral dissertation.
“We are proud to announce the discovery of what is believed to be the only remaining manuscript of ‘The Friar and The Nurse’. Which we have dated to between 1594-1597” members of Oxford University’s Shakespeare Society announced in a press confrence early Wednesday.
Though the play, which is a sequel to Shakespeare’s 1594 tragedy Romeo and Juliet, following a subsequent love affair between [Romeo’s confidant] Friar Lawrence and Juliet’s Nurse, has only recently been discovered, it is mentioned in numerous Shakespeare contemperaries.
In his 1598 when speaking of Shakespeare, Sir Thomas Quinn said, “He hath giv’n the public many plays. Amongst them the merry comedy Loves Labours Lost, the most sad tragedy Romeo and Juliet, and its most successful follow-on The Friar and The Nurse.”
The recent discovery of the play has excited the literary community at large, who are delighted by the appearance of a genuine lost Shakespeare play, after the appearance of other “Shakespeare plays” generally of spurious origin.
The manuscript will make its way to the British Library in London to be authenticated.
posted by Patrick at 7:46 PM
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home