Cardenio between Cervantes and Shakespeare The story of a lost play
ISBN: 9780745661841 | 074566184X
Edition: 1stFormat: Hardcover
Publisher: Polity
Pub. Date: 2/4/2013
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How should we read a text that does not exist, or present a play the manuscript of which is lost and the identity of whose author cannot be established for certain? Such is the enigma posed by Cardenio a play performed in England for the first time in 1612 or 1613 and attributed forty years later to Shakespeare (and Fletcher). Its plot is that of a 'novella' inserted into Don Quixote, a work that circulated throughout the major countries of Europe, where it was translated and adapted for the theatre. In England, Cervantes' novel was known and c... MORE
Introduction READING A TEXT THAT DOES NOT EXIST
Chapter I CARDENIO AT COURT
LONDON, 1613
Spain in England
Don Quixote in translation
Why Cardenio?
Dorotea’s story
Happy ending
Chapter II CARDENIO AND DON QUIXOTE
SPAIN, 1605-1608
Don Quixote as he is depicted in his book
Double marriages
Don Quixote ‘gracioso de comedia’
The madman, the poet and the prince
Seeming and being: an exchange of sons
Chapter III A FRENCH CARD... MORE
Chapter I CARDENIO AT COURT
LONDON, 1613
Spain in England
Don Quixote in translation
Why Cardenio?
Dorotea’s story
Happy ending
Chapter II CARDENIO AND DON QUIXOTE
SPAIN, 1605-1608
Don Quixote as he is depicted in his book
Double marriages
Don Quixote ‘gracioso de comedia’
The madman, the poet and the prince
Seeming and being: an exchange of sons
Chapter III A FRENCH CARD... MORE
Roger Chartier is Professor of History at the Collège de France, Directeur d'Études at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris and Annenberg Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania.
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