Title: Cardenio, or, The second maiden's tragedy
Description: "Set in the heat and dust of Andalusia in seventeenth-century Spain, Cardenio is the story of a friendship betrayed, with all the elements of a thriller: disguise, dishonour and deceit. A woman is seduced, a bride is forced to the altar, and a man runs mad among the mountains of the Sierra Morena. Based on an episode in Cervantes' Don Quixote, the play known as Cardenio by Shakespeare and John Fletcher was performed at court in 1612. A copy of their collaboration has never been found; however, it is claimed that Double Falshood by Lewis Theobald is an eighteenth-century adaptation of it. Since Theobald's play misses out some crucial scenes in the plot, Doran has turned to the Cervantes original to supply the missing episodes, using the original English translation by Thomas Shelton (1612) that Fletcher and Shakespeare must themselves have read."--Publisher.
Subjects: Spurious and doubtful works, English drama, Authorship, Autographs, Second maiden's tragedy, Manuscripts, Facsimiles, Shakespeare, william, 1564-1616, spurious and doubtful works, British and irish drama (dramatic works by one author), Women, Drama, Impersonation
People: William Shakespeare (1564-1616), John Fletcher (1579-1625)
Time periods: 17th century