The Creation and Re-Creation of Cardenio [electronic resource] : Performing Shakespeare, Transforming Cervantes /
Bourus, T.editor.
Taylor, G.editor.
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 scholars, this book will make a definitive statement about the collaborative nature of Cardenio.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures, Plates, and Tables; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Foreword: Mr. Fletcher. & Shakespeare. [& Theobald]; Part I; 1 The Passion of Readers, the Imitation of Texts: The History of Reading in the Quest for Cardenio; 2 Reading Cervantes, or Shelton, or Phillips? The Source(s) of Cardenio and Double Falsehood; 3 The 1612 Don Quixote and the Windet-Stansby Printing House; 4 Quixote on the English Stage: A New Glimpse of The History of Cardenio?
5 Blessed with a Baby or "Bum-Fidled with a Bastard"? Maternity in Fletcher's The Chances and Cervantes'6 Girls on the Run: Love's Pilgrimage, The Coxcomb, and Double Falsehood; 7 Furious Soldiers and Mad Lovers: Plotting Fletcher and The History of Cardenio; 8 "Shall I Never See a Lusty Man Again?": John Fletcher's Men, 1608-1715; 9 Shakespeare, Theobald, and the Prose Problem in Double Falsehood; 10 Sleight of Mind: Cognitive Illusions and Shakespearian Desire Gary Taylor; 11 The "Unscene" and Unstaged in Double Falsehood, Cardenio, and Shakespeare's Romances
12 Performing Spanish Culture through Flamenco: Aurality and Embodiment in the Royal Shakespeare Company's Cardenio13 Poner en escena The History of Cardenio; 14 Time Begets a Wonder: The History of Cardenio at IUPUI; 15 Cardenio : Shakespeare's Lost Race Play?; Part II The History of Cardenio, 1612-2012; 16 A Posthumous Collaborator's Preface; 17 The History of Cardenio, 1612-2012; Contributors; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 scholars, this book will make a definitive statement about the collaborative nature of Cardenio.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616
Fletcher, John, 1579-1625
Cardenio.
Poetry.
Literature, Modern.
Performing arts.
British literature.
Literature—History and criticism.
Literature—Philosophy.
Poetry and Poetics.
Early Modern/Renaissance Literature.
Performing Arts.
British and Irish Literature.
Literary History.
Literary Theory.