Found Plot for Lost Shakespeare Play!

We are still working to discover the name of this play, but have dug deep and found the basic plot for a lost Shakespeare play. There are still missing parts that need to be found please post if you find some of the missing pieces to the plot.


Basic Plot


Prologue: Introducing Meleager

• Birth
• Prophecy - Fates
• Mention him growing up and also Jason and the Argonauts

Act I

• Returns Home to Calydon and Aetolia
• Meets Atalanta
• Meets Euriponditis
• War of words
• Meleager challenges Euriponditis to capture the White Stag
• Atalanta overhears and conspires with friends to watch the challenge.

Act II

• Euriponditis and Meleager kill the White Stag.
• Euriponditis becomes Meleagers Servant
• Atalanta mocks at how long it took Meleager to catch the Stag
• Demands entry in the Boar hunt
• Denied because she is a woman

Act III

• The Boar Hunt
• Atalanta dresses as a man to participate
• Atalanta draws first blood on the Boar
• Meleager finishes the Boar off
• Meleager gives skin to Atalanta

Act IV

• Death Scene
• Meleager kills his brother Toxeus and uncle Plexippus
• Because they mocked him for giving the skin to Atalanta
• Euriponditis kills Iphicles and Eurypylus
• Iphicles is the husband of Euriponditis’s love.

Act V

• Meleager dies
• Althaea (Meleager’s Mother) convinces Euriponditis to throw the log in the fire.

Key plot ideas we are searching for the answers.

1. Kleopatra and Atalanta
1. Wife vs. True Love
2. Euri’s love story
1. Fall in love with a married woman
2. Could be Iphicles’s wife Chloe
3. The Boar Hunt
1. What occurs
2. Does Euriponditis become a friend or a servant?
3. Significants of the Boar Hunt
4. Meeting of Meleager and Atalanta
1. In an Inn or Tavern
2. Dynamics
3. Atalanta overhears conversation of Meleager and Euriponditis and conspires with friends to cheer on Meleager.
5. Meeting of Meleager and Euriponditis
1. War of Words
2. Meleager learns of Euriponditis’s superior weapons
3. They are competing for the whitestag.