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Revisiting Shakespeare's Lost Play : Cardenio/Double Falsehood in the Eighteenth Century

Revisiting Shakespeare's Lost Play : Cardenio/Double Falsehood in the Eighteenth Century

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Publisher's Synopsis

This collection of essays centres on Double Falsehood, Lewis Theobald's 1727 adaptation of the "lost" play of Cardenio, possibly co-authored by John Fletcher and William Shakespeare. In a departure from most scholarship to date, the contributors fold Double Falsehood back into the milieu for which it was created rather than searching for traces of Shakespeare in the text. Robert D. Hume's knowledge of theatre history permits a fresh take on the forgery question as well as the Shakespeare authorship controversy. Diana Solomon's understanding of eighteenth-century rape culture and Jean I. Marsden's command of contemporary adaptation practices both emphasise the play's immediate social and theatrical contexts. And, finally, Deborah C. Payne's familiarity with the eighteenth-century stage allows for a reconsideration of Double Falsehood as integral to a debate between Theobald, Alexander Pope, and John Gay over the future of the English drama.

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Book information

ISBN: 9783319465135
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Pub date:
DEWEY: 822.33
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 138
Weight: 454g
Height: 210mm
Width: 148mm
Spine width: 15mm