Cardenio Between Cervantes and Shakespeare The Story of a Lost Play |
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| Author:
| Chartier, Roger |
| ISBN: | 978-0-7456-6185-8 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 2012 |
| Publisher: | Polity Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $36.95 |
Book Description:
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How should we read a text that does not exist, or present a playthe manuscript of which is lost and the identity of whose authorcannot be established for certain?
Such is the enigma posed by Cardenio a playperformed in England for the first time in 1612 or 1613 andattributed forty years later to Shakespeare (and Fletcher).
How should we read a text that does not exist, or present a playthe manuscript of which is lost and the identity of whose authorcannot be established for certain?
Such is the enigma posed by Cardenio a playperformed in England for the first time in 1612 or 1613 andattributed forty years later to Shakespeare (and Fletcher).