Martin Wiggins is Senior Scholar of The Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon. Educated at Oxford, he won the Charles Oldham Shakespeare Prize in 1984 and was Junior Research Fellow at Keble College, Oxford from 1987-90. He has been Fellow of The Shakespeare Institute since 1990. Has served as Associate General Editor of Oxford English Drama (1992-2008), and of The Philological Museum (2004 to date).Catherine Richardson is Reader in Renaissance Studies at the University of Kent. Her research focuses on the relationship between texts and the material experience of daily life in early modern England, on- and offstage. Previous publications include Domestic Life and Domestic Tragedy (Manchester University Press, 2006) and Shakespeare and Material Culture (OUP, 2011). She is editor of Clothing Culture 1350-1650 (Ashgate, 2004) and, with Tara Hamling, Everyday Objects: medieval and early modern material culture and its meanings (Ashgate, 2010).

Wiggins does a commendable job of drawing sketches of the lost plays from the meagre evidence of their existence ... the real richness, as usual, lies in the room for discovery of the period's abundance ... The mark of an excellent reference work is surely that the reader keeps reading after the initial enquiry has been resolved ... one puts this book down having gained not only the clarification sought, but also a determination to read another play entirely.

• Abbreviations ; List of Entries ; British Drama, 1603-8 ; Index of Persons ; Index of Places ; Index of Plays