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. The history of the play is every bit as
thrilling, and this text is the result of a masterful act of literary
archaeology by the Royal Shakespeare Company's Chief Associate
Director Gregory Doran, to re-imagine a previously lost play by
Shakespeare. 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. Cardenio re-opened the Swan Theatre,
Stratford-upon-Avon, as part of the Royal Shakespeare Company's
fiftieth birthday season in 2011. 'an extraordinary and theatrically
powerful piece... the play works beautifully' - Guardian
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ISBN
9781780011653
Publisert
2016
Utgiver
Vendor
Nick Hern Books (FF)
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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