ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book uses digital humanities, as a new tool to attack the problems they present. It argues that the tools it uses principally lookups on EEBO-TCP and other databases have become, in the last few years, so much part of everyday scholarly practice that they should no longer really be considered as "digital humanities" in the sense which has emerged over the last few years of a differentiated practice, almost a separate sub discipline. The plays here include comedies, histories, and tragedies; they are spread across a span of at least 40 years and a number of theatrical contexts; they include both solo and collaborative plays by the famous, the obscure, and the anonymous. The thousand-plus "lost plays" of the early modern theatre are vital part of the picture of that theatre, and should be taken seriously.
