The Creation and Re-Creation of Cardenio Performing Shakespeare, Tra
Did Shakespeare really join John Fletcher to write Cardenio, a lost play based on Don Quixote? With an emphasis on the importance of theatrical experiment, a script and photos from Gary Taylor's recent production, and essays by respected early modern scho
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“Gary Taylor and Terri Bourus make Shakespeare come alive with such enthusiasm, you’d swear the Bard himself was sitting in the room with them. Meticulous and passionate scholars, they don’t shy away from questioning long-held theories and testing them—not only through extensive research— but also through the crucible of live performance. It does not surprise me that they would tackle the reconstruction of Cardenio or that Gary would take some twenty years to do it. When they’re done, Cardenio will certainly stand as a testament to how painstaking line-by-line scholarship can combine with academic imagination to create pure joy.” —Jim Simmons, Producer/Writer of “Shakespeare Lost/Shakespeare Found” TV documentary about The History of Cardenio “This persuasive book should put to rest nearly three hundred years of debate over the lost King’s Men play of 1613. Cardenio was indeed a Fletcher/ Shakespeare collaboration, based on episodes from Cervantes’ bestseller Don Quixote. Lewis Theobald was not a forger: his 1727 adaptation Double Falsehood does derive from Cardenio. With meticulous scholarship and creative theatrical acumen the editors assemble a formidable case, and also triumphantly publish for the first time Taylor’s ‘unadaptation’ of The History of Cardenio.” —David Carnegie, Emeritus Professor FRSNZ, School of English, Film, Theatre, and Media Studies, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand; and co-editor of The Quest for Cardenio: Shakespeare, Fletcher, Cervantes, and The Lost Play “Taylor and Bourus’s team brings us closer to the lost Cardenio in four ways: they render the forgery hypothesis even less convincing, provide more evidence for Shakespeare’s collaboration, enrich our understanding of Fletcher’s dramatic art, and pay significant attention to the performative dimension.” —Brean Hammond, Professor of Modern English Literature, University of Nottingham, UK; and editor of the Arden edition of Double Falsehood
“The most up-to-date collection of essays about Shakespeare’s lost play, with important new work on Cardenio’s composition, collaborators, reconstructions, and performances.” —Valerie Wayne, Professor Emerita, University of Hawaii, USA; and editor of the Arden edition of Cymbeline “Taylor and Bourus’s collaboration pairs textual studies and theatrical practice, literary analysis and performance studies, detective work and hypotheses scientifically tested with mathematical precision. Taylor’s careful excavation of Fletcher and Shakespeare’s language from Lewis Theobald’s Double Falsehood, Bourus’s thoughtful direction of the resulting script—two decades in the making—and the incisive analyses provided by all hands in these pages make of Fletcher and Shakespeare’s labor of love lost a Cardenio found.” —Regina Buccola, Associate Professor, Roosevelt University, USA; and co-editor of Chicago Shakespeare Theater: Suiting the Action to the Word
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