| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 443 pages : illustrations, music) |
| Series |
The Arden Shakespeare. Third series |
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
Works. 1995.
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| Contents |
List of illustrations -- General editors' preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction. The Double falsehood enigma ; Double falsehood : premiere and publication ; Double falsehood : the play ; From Don Quixote to Cardenio ; From Cardenio to Double falsehood ; Party politics and cultural politics : Double falsehood in context ; Lewis Theobald and Alexander Pope ; The authorship, provenance and nature of Double falsehood ; The problem of authorship, or what did Theobald know, and when did he know it? ; Stage history ; An 'agreeable cheat'? ; Text ; Collation and examination of copies ; The third and fourth editions ; This edition ; Epilogue ; The history of Cardenio, adapted for the eighteenth-century stage as Double falsehood, or The Distressed lovers ; Royal licence ; Dedication ; Preface of the editor ; Dramatis personae and original casts ; Drury Lane 1727-8 ; Covent Garden 1767 -- Double falsehood, or, The distressed lovers -- Appendix 1. Lewis Theobald and Alexander Pope -- Appendix 2. 'Piddling Tibbald' and Theobald's name -- Appendix 3. 'None but itself can be its parallel' -- Appendix 4. Scene plan for Double falsehood -- Appendix 5. Music in Double falsehood -- Appendix 6. Don Quixote : excerpts from Thomas Shelton's translation -- Abbreviations and references. Abbreviations used in notes ; Works by and partly by Shakespeare ; Works in the Fletcher canon ; Editions of Double falsehood collated ; Works by Theobald cited ; Other works cited -- Index |
| Summary |
A play performed at the Theatre Royal in London in 1727 which the producer, Lewis Theobald, claimed to have adapted from a Shakespeare play. The plot is a version of the story of Cardenio found in Cervantes' Don Quixote as translated by Thomas Shelton and published in 1612. Documentary records list a play by William Shakespeare and John Fletcher performed in 1613, probably entitled The History of Cardenio. Is this the missing play or a literary fraud? |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 423-436) and index |
| Subject |
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Spurious and doubtful works.
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| SUBJECT |
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. fast (OCoLC)fst00029048 |
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Theobald, Lewis 1688-1744 gnd |
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Cárdenas Y Ángulo, Pedro. gnd |
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Theobald, Lewis. swd |
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Double falsehood. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n96078299
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Double falsehood. fast (OCoLC)fst01397459 |
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Cardenio gnd |
| Subject |
English drama -- 18th century -- History and criticism
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English drama.
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Drama.
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Englisch.
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| Genre/Form |
English drama
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Drama.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Spurious and doubtful works.
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Drama.
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Théâtre.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Theobald, Mr. (Lewis), 1688-1744, supposed author.
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Hammond, Brean S., 1951-
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| LC no. |
2010497492 |
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