The Quest for Cardenio: Shakespeare, Fletcher, Cervantes, and the Lost Play

by Gary Taylor

This book is about the search for a lost play. Celebrating the quatercentenary of publication of the first translation of Don Quixote, it is the first collection of essays entirely devoted to The History of Cardenio, a play based on Cervantes and probably written in that same year. It was said to be written by Shakespeare and the young man who was taking his place, John Fletcher, the most successful English playwright of the seventeenth century. The...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199641811
• ISBN13: 9780199641819
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 436 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.3" x 9.3"