title: Discovering Will's Lost Years and the Marlowe-Shakespeare Lost Play: Uncovering 16th and 21st-Century Mystery, Treachery and Obsession
author: Richard J. Noyes
description: After long stints with IBM and Westinghouse, Richard J. Noyes was Associate Director of the Center for Advanced Engineering Study at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Noyes is now a business consultant for public and private sector organizations. Also by Richard Noyes: WWII Soldier Flier Prisoner Partisan: Missing in Action and Presumed Dead. Two young Americans, an infantryman and a pilot, face hellish action fighting Nazis across North Africa and Europe. They find deep love with two battlefield nurses before joining with Polish partisans to battle the Gestapo and SS, while rescuing Auschwitz escapees, 290 pages, Amazon. By Richard Noyes and co-author Pamela J. Robertson: Larceny of Love, a contemporary novel of action, love, danger and emotion. Trace the interwoven careers of three men in jeopardy and the accomplished women in their lives, plus compelling inside looks at cutthroat technology, big-time sports and Machiavellian Hollywood deals, 280 pages, Amazon. By Noyes and Robertson: Guts in the Clutch: 77 Legendary Triumphs, Heartbreaks and Wild Finishes in 12 Sports, Illustrated, 329 pages, Amazon, with a Foreword by Drew Olson of ESPN and Past President of the Baseball Writers Association of America. Read stories of talent, passion and the human spirit, exemplified by the coach who played in the goal for the first time and won a Stanley Cup. By Richard Noyes: Charles Dickens American Reading Tour of 1867-1868, Amazon, a brief but satisfying account relating how friendships with famous American authors were renewed, as Dickens performed a series of widely acclaimed readings in American cities. Dickens readers and others will find this concise account to be informative, often amusing and occasionally touching.
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  # Contents
  
  
  
  
  
  * [Cover](html/Cover.xhtml)
  
  
  * [Front Matter](html/462789_1_En_BookFrontmatter_OnlinePDF.xhtml)
  
  
  * [1\. Introduction: Coping with Loss](html/462789_1_En_1_Chapter.xhtml)
  
  
  * [Part I. “Gone and Loste”: The Nature and Forms of Lostness](html/Part_1.xhtml)
  
  
  
  
  
  * [2\. Shakespeare’s Ruined Quires](html/462789_1_En_2_Chapter.xhtml)
  
  
  * [3\. Lost Playhouse Manuscripts](html/462789_1_En_3_Chapter.xhtml)
  
  
  * [4\. Richard Edwards’ “Palamon and Arcyte” and the Semi-Textual Basis of Playing](html/462789_1_En_4_Chapter.xhtml)
  
  
  * [5\. “I haue lost it”: Apologies, Appeals, and Justifications for Misplacing The Wild-Goose Chase and Other Plays](html/462789_1_En_5_Chapter.xhtml)
  
  
  * [6\. Like a Virgin: Lost and Reborn Ballads](html/462789_1_En_6_Chapter.xhtml)
  
  
  * [7\. Rediscovering Lost Literature in the Stationers’ Company Register](html/462789_1_En_7_Chapter.xhtml)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  * [Part II. “To know wher a thinge is”: Searching for Answers](html/Part_2.xhtml)
  
  
  
  
  
  * [8\. Lost Plays 