Provider: World Shakespeare Bibliography https://www.worldshakesbib.org Database: WSB Content: text/plain; charset="utf-8" TY - THES ID - bbbc1977 T1 - "'Desunt Nonnulla': Reading the Incomplete Text in Early Modern England" AU - Stark-Gendrano, Rebecca Ellen PY - 2013 DA - 2026 LA - English AB - Interrogates ideas of "completeness" in Timon of Athens in comparison with Restoration adaptations, including Thomas Shadwell's The History of Timon of Athens, the Man-Hater, James Love's Timon of Athens, and Richard Cumberland's Timon of Athens, a Tragedy. Demonstrates that these "playwrights relied on an ethical device--the addition of a morally pure female character--in an attempt to fill holes in their understanding of Timon's character, correct his problematic behavior, and ease the divide between the play's two halves." ER -