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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Carnegie, David, 1943-

Taylor, Gary, 1953-

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Authorship.

Shakespeare, William.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

Fletcher, John, 1579-1625.

Second maiden's tragedy.

Authorship.

Fletcher, John, 1579-1625--Authorship.

Fletcher, John.

Second maiden's tragedy--Authorship.

English drama--17th century--History and criticism.

English drama.

Physical Description:

xiv, 420 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Part I Setting the Stage

1 Introduction / David Carnegie Carnegie, David 3

2 A History of The History of Cardenio / Gary Taylor Taylor, Gary 11

3 After Arden / Brean Hammond Hammond, Brean 62

Part II External Evidence: What the Documents Say

4 Cardenio and the Eighteenth-Century Shakespeare Canon / Edmund G. C. King King, Edmund G. C. 81

5 Malone's Double Falsehood / Ivan Lupic Lupic, Ivan 95

6 'Whether one did Contrive, the Other Write, / Or one Fram'd the Plot, the Other did Indite': Fletcher and Theobald as Collaborative Writers / Tiffany Stern Stern, Tiffany 115

Part III Internal Evidence: What Style and Structure Say

7 Looking for Shakespeare in Double Falsehood: Stylistic Evidence / MacDonald P. Jackson Jackson, MacDonald P. 133

8 Can Double Falsehood Be Merely a Forgery by Lewis Theobald? / Richard Proudfoot Proudfoot, Richard 162

9 Theobald's Pattern of Adaptation: The Duchess of Malfi and Richard II / David Carnegie Carnegie, David 180

10 Four Characters in Search of a Subplot: Quixote, Sancho, and Cardenio / Gary Taylor Taylor, Gary, John V. Nance Nance, John V. 192

Part IV Intertexts and Cross-currents

11 Don Quixote and Shakespeare's Collaborative Turn to Romance / Valerie Wayne Wayne, Valerie 217

12 The Friend in Cardenio, Double Falsehood, and Don Quixote / Huw Griffiths Griffiths, Huw 239

13 Transvestism, Transformation, and Text: Cross-dressing and Gender Roles in Double Falsehood/The History of Cardenio / Lori Leigh Leigh, Lori 256

14 In This Good Time: Cardenio and the Temporal Character of Shakespearean Drama / Matthew Wagner Wagner, Matthew 267

Part V Cardenio for Performance

15 A Select Chronology of Cardenio / David Carnegie Carnegie, David 283

16 The Embassy, The City, The Court, The Text: Cardenio Performed in 1613 / Gary Taylor Taylor, Gary 286

17 Cardenio without Shakespeare / Roger Chartier Chartier, Roger 309

18 Nostalgia for the Cervantes-Shakespeare link: Charles David Ley's Historia de Cardenio / Ángel-Luis Pujante Pujante, Ángel-Luis 318

19 Cultural Mobility and Transitioning Authority: Greenblatt's Cardenio Project / Carla Della Gatta Gatta, Carla Della 329

20 Reimagining Cardenio / Bernard Richards Richards, Bernard 344

21 Will the Real Cardenio Please Stand Up? Richards's Cardenio in Cambridge / Richard Proudfoot Proudfoot, Richard 352

22 Theobald Restor'd: Double Falsehood at the Union Theatre, Southwark / Peter Kirwan Kirwan, Peter 356

23 Restoring Double Falsehood to the Perpendicular for the RSC / Gregory Doran Doran, Gregory 360

24 Exploring The History of Cardenio in Performance / David Carnegie Carnegie, David, Lori Leigh Leigh, Lori 368

25 Taylor's The History of Cardenio in Wellington / David Lawrence Lawrence, David 383

26 'May I be metamorphosed': Cardenio by Stages / Terri Bourus Bourus, Terri 387.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [404]-406) and index.

ISBN:

9780199641819

0199641811

OCLC:

783148801