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This book is about the search for a lost play. Celebrating the quatercentenary of publication of the first translation of Don Quixote, it is the first collection of essays entirely devoted to The History of Cardenio, a play based on Cervantes and probably written in that same year. It was said to be written by Shakespeare and the young man who was taking his place, John Fletcher, the most successful English playwright of the seventeenth century. The book brings together leading scholars, critics, and theatre practitioners to discuss the lost (or partially lost) play. It also re-examines Lewis Theobald's 1727 Double Falsehood, allegedly based on Cardenio. A range of approaches -new archival evidence, employment of advanced computer-aided stylometric tests for authorship attribution, early modern theatre history, literary and theatrical analysis, musicology, and recent theatrical productions and adaptations - produces new research findings about the play, Shakespeare, Fletcher, Cervantes, and the early modern relationship between Spanish and English culture. The book establishes the dates, venues, and audience for two performances of Cardenio by the King's Men in 1613, and identifies glimpses of the play in several seventeenth-century documents. It also provides much new evidence and analysis of Double Falsehood, which Theobald claimed was based on previously unknown manuscripts of a play by Shakespeare. His enemies, especially Pope, denied the Shakespeare attribution. Debate has continued ever since. While some contributors advocate sceptical caution, new research provides stronger evidence than ever before that a lost Fletcher/Shakespeare Cardenio can be discerned within Double Falsehood. Uniquely, this collection combines archival research and literary analysis with accounts of recent theatrical experiments, which explore the Cardenio problem by reviving or adapting Double Falsehood, and demonstrate that such practical theatrical work throws valuable light
English literature --- Drama --- anno 1600-1699 --- Shakespeare, William --- Cardenio --- Cervantes saavedra, miguel de (1547-1616) --- Fletcher, john (1579-1625)
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"From the Ghost's appearance in Hamlet to Celia's frightful speech in Volpone, interruptions are an overlooked linguistic and dramatic form that delineates the balance of power within a scene. This book analyses interruptions as a specific form in dramatic literature, arguing how these everyday occurrences, when transformed into aesthetic phenomena, reveal the connections among characters, between actor and audience, and between text and reader. To interrupt, both on stage and off, is to wrest power. Focusing on the works of William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson and John Fletcher, Michael M. Wagoner considers early modern drama as an exemplary, influential moment of dramatic output. This study examines interruptions that occur through the use of punctuation and stage directions, as well as through larger forms such as conventions and dramaturgy. Studying interruptions may indicate aspects of authorial style, emphasizing a playwright's use and control of a text and its implications and expectations. Exploring relative power dynamics pushes readers and audiences to reconsider key plays and characters, providing new considerations of the relationships between Othello and Iago or Macbeth and the Ghost of Banquo. Interruptions, as a form on the stage, codify and expose these balances and imbalances of power"--
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