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The Quest for Cardenio

Shakespeare, Fletcher, Cervantes, and the Lost Play

Herausgeber: Carnegie, David; Taylor, Gary

Beschreibung

This book is about the search for a lost play. Bringing together leading scholars, critics, and theatre practitioners, it is the first collection of essays devoted to The History of Cardenio, a play based on Don Quixote and said to have been written by Shakespeare and the young man who was taking his place, John Fletcher.

Autor

David Carnegie is Research Professor of Theatre at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. He is co-editor of the Cambridge edition of The Works of John Webster, and has published widely on Elizabethan drama and stagecraft. He has also worked professionally as a director, dramaturg, and critic, and directed the first full production of Gary Taylor's 'creative reconstruction' of Double Falsehood entitled The History of Cardenio. Gary Taylor is George Matthew Edgar Professor of English at Florida State University. He is general editor of prize-winning, innovative Oxford editions of Shakespeare's Complete Works and Middleton's Collected Works, as well as a prize-winning book on Shakespeare in performance, Moment by Moment by Shakespeare. In addition to his twenty-two scholarly books, he has written for newspapers and magazines on both sides of the Atlantic, been widely interviewed on radio and television, and spoken at major theatres in the UK, USA, and Canada. His reconstruction of The History of Cardenio has been developed through workshops and readings at many theatres, including Shakespeare's Globe (London), the Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, the American Shakespeare Center, and the Shakespeare Theatre in Washington D.C.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 436
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Oktober 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 160mm x 36mm
• Gewicht: 816g
• ISBN-13: 9780199641819
• ISBN-10: 0199641811
• Artikelnr.: 35483922