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The quest for Cardenio : Shakespeare, Fletcher, Cervantes, and the lost play / edited by David Carnegie, Gary Taylor.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fletcher, John, 1579-1625--Authorship.
- Fletcher, John.
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Authorship.
- Shakespeare, William.
- Second maiden's tragedy--Authorship.
- Second maiden's tragedy.
- English drama--17th century--History and criticism.
- English drama.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (435 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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:
- 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. Malone's Double Falsehood; 6. 'Whether one did Contrive, the Other Write, / Or one Fram'd the Plot, the Other did Indite': 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. Theobald'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 Shakespeare'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 Performance15. 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 Cervantes-Shakespeare link: Charles David Ley's Historia de Cardenio; 19. Cultural Mobility and Transitioning Authority: Greenblatt's Cardenio Project; 20. Reimagining Cardenio; 21. Will the Real Cardenio Please Stand Up? Richards's Cardenio in Cambridge; 22. Theobald Restor'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 Performance25. Taylor's The History of Cardenio in Wellington; 26. 'May I be metamorphosed': 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
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on Aug. 24, 2012).
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9786613922106
- 1-283-60965-7
- 0-19-164567-2
- OCLC:
- 922971232
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