The quest for Cardenio : Shakespeare, Fletcher, Cervantes, and the lost play

The quest for Cardenio : Shakespeare, Fletcher, Cervantes, and the lost play / edited by David Carnegie and Gary Taylor.

Bringing together leading scholars, critics, and theatre practitioners, this collection of essays is devoted to 'The History of Cardenio', a play based on Don Quixote and said to have been written by Shakespeare and the young man who was taking his place, John Fletcher.

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Other Authors: Carnegie, David, 1943-, Taylor, Gary
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford Univ. Press, ©2012.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Studies in development economics.
Subjects:
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 > Authorship.
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, > 1547-1616 > Authorship.
Fletcher, John, > 1579-1625 > Authorship.
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, > 1547-1616
Fletcher, John, > 1579-1625
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616
Second maiden's tragedy.
Second maiden's tragedy
1600-1699
English drama > 17th century > History.
DRAMA > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Authorship
English drama
Electronic books.
History
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Table of Contents:
  • ""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""List of Abbreviations""; ""List of Illustrations""; ""List of Contributors""; ""Part I: Setting the Stage""; ""1. Introduction""; ""2. A History of The History of Cardenio""; ""3. After Arden""; ""Part II: External Evidence: What the Documents Say""; ""4. Cardenio and the Eighteenth-Century Shakespeare Canon""; ""5. Maloneâ€?s Double Falsehood""; ""6. â€?Whether one did Contrive, the Other Write, / Or one Framâ€?d the Plot, the Other did Inditeâ€?: Fletcher and Theobald as Collaborative Writers""; ""Part III: Internal Evidence: What Style and Structure Say""
  • ""7. Looking for Shakespeare in Double Falsehood: Stylistic Evidence""""8. Can Double Falsehood Be Merely a Forgery by Lewis Theobald?""; ""9. Theobaldâ€?s Pattern of Adaptation: The Duchess of Malfi and Richard II""; ""10. Four Characters in Search of a Subplot: Quixote, Sancho, and Cardenio""; ""Part IV: Intertexts and Cross-currents""; ""11. Don Quixote and Shakespeareâ€?s Collaborative Turn to Romance""; ""12. The Friend in Cardenio, Double Falsehood, and Don Quixote""
  • ""13. Transvestism, Transformation, and Text: Cross-dressing and Gender Roles in Double Falsehood/The History of Cardenio""""14. In This Good Time: Cardenio and the Temporal Character of Shakespearean Drama""; ""Part V: Cardenio for Performance""; ""15. A Select Chronology of Cardenio""; ""16. The Embassy, The City, The Court, The Text: Cardenio Performed in 1613""; ""17. Cardenio without Shakespeare""; ""18. Nostalgia for the Cervantesâ€?Shakespeare link: Charles David Leyâ€?s Historia de Cardenio""; ""19. Cultural Mobility and Transitioning Authority: Greenblattâ€?s Cardenio Project""
  • ""20. Reimagining Cardenio""""21. Will the Real Cardenio Please Stand Up? Richardsâ€?s Cardenio in Cambridge""; ""22. Theobald Restorâ€?d: Double Falsehood at the Union Theatre, Southwark""; ""23. Restoring Double Falsehood to the Perpendicular for the RSC""; ""24. Exploring The History of Cardenio in Performance""; ""25. Taylorâ€?s The History of Cardenio in Wellington""; ""26. â€?May I be metamorphosedâ€?: Cardenio by Stages""; ""Works Cited""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""
  • ""T""""u""; ""v""; ""w""; ""y""

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