Abstract
"Within the pages of a Vice-President’s Register (1920–1984), held in the Old Library archives of his Oxford College, Lewis handwrote, in mock Shakespearean English, 'The Tragicomicall Briefe Reigne of Lewis the Bald.' As far as we know, this is the only complete play in his corpus. Mostly unpublished until the recent release of C. S. Lewis’s Oxford (2024) by Simon Horobin, this piece has yet to receive the scholarly attention it deserves. In what follows, I seek to address this gap through a close analysis of portions of the text and its broader implications for Lewis’s approach to writing."
Recommended Citation
Perez, Jahdiel
(2025)
"The Tragicomedy of C. S. Lewis the Bald: Reflections on an Unpublished Play,"
Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal: Vol. 19
:
Iss.
2
, Article 11.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.55221/1940-5537.1577
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https://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/cslewisjournal/vol19/iss2/11
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