Comments on: Wikipedia’s List of “Lost Work”

By: Julia

Julia — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 00:30:12 +0000

I don’t know about the missing half of the second novel, but all the rest of Sylvia Plath’s manuscripts are stored in the rare book room at my college (which coincidentally was also her college). Wouldn’t surprise me a bit if the librarians were hiding half of the second novel, or holding on to it without realizing that they had it. Or maybe some student just took it out to do a research paper and forgot to return it. It could happen…. :-)

By: punkinsmom

punkinsmom — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 21:13:23 +0000

Memoirs of Lord Byron

I bet that made for some interesting reading!
It’s so sad when something unique disappears.

By: nutmeag

nutmeag — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 13:15:07 +0000

I’d never heard of Love’s Labour’s Won until watching season two of the new Doctor Who series . . . and even then I half thought they made it up just for that episode!

By: mike

mike — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 13:13:07 +0000

I’d heard that Red Skelton was so incensed at his cancellation by CBS, that he said something to the effect of, “I own the rights to all those tapes, and I have ordered them to be burned upon my death.” On whether that has happened or not, Wikipedia falls silent. However, the lack of availability of the old CBS episodes on DVD or whatnot leads me to believe that that actually happened.

Would be a true loss, if it did. Those were great television moments.

By: Camille

Camille — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 02:00:36 +0000

I was surprised Queen Victoria’s diaries weren’t listed in the Wikipedia entry. After her death, her daughter edited and then destroyed her diaries. About 1/3 of the writings were lost.

By: Jake Le Master

Jake Le Master — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 01:53:03 +0000

I was on the Lost Work’s pages of Wikipedia about three weeks ago and it was really depressing. I especially hated reading about all of the old lost silent films and how the majority of them will probably never be uncovered.

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 23:56:20 +0000

About the Ur-Hamlet, some scholars have suggested that the “lost” play is actually what we call the first quarto, or “bad quarto,” of Shakespeare’s Hamlet – for which we do have a script. So it might not actually be lost.