Double Falsehood Or The Distressed Lovers - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 190343677X ISBN 13: 9781903436776

Casa editrice: Bloomsbury Arden, 2010

Riassunto

On December 1727 an intriguing play called Double Falshood; Or, The Distrest Lovers was presented for production by Lewis Theobald, who had it published in January 1728 after a successful run at the TheatreRoyal, Drury Lane, London. The title page to the published version claims that the play was 'Written Originally by W.SHAKESPEARE'.

Double Falsehood's plot is a version of the story of Cardenio found in Cervantes's Don Quixote (1605) as translated by Thomas Shelton, published in 1612 though in circulation earlier. Documentary records testify to the existence of a play, certainly performed in 1613, by John Fletcher and William Shakespeare, probably entitled The History of Cardenio and presumed to have been lost. The audience in 1727 would certainly have recognized stage situations and dramatic structures and patterns reminiscent of those in Shakespeare's canonical plays as well as many linguistic echoes.

This intriguing complex textual and performance history is thoroughly explored and debated in this fully annotated edition, including the views of other major Shakespeare scholars. The illustrated introduction provides a comprehensive overview of the debates and opinions surrounding the play and the text is fully annotated with detailed commentary notes as in any Arden edition.

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Recensione

The publication of Theobald s adaptation in the Arden Shakespeare series is to be welcomed. --Jonathan Bate, Daily Telegraph

For most of the three centuries since its debut, Double Falsehood; or, the Distrest Lovers has been ridiculed as a hoax or just disregarded. Yesterday that changed when The Arden Shakespeare, one of the best regarded scholarly editions of Shakespeare s plays, published Double Falsehood, endorsing its credentials and making it available for the first time in 250 years. --The Times

The play s bardic provenance has been given fresh credibility by publishers Arden, who have included it in a new series of Shakespeare s work. The publication of the play, which is bound to spark heated scholarly discussion, comes after a ten year mission to crack a literary mystery by Professor Brean Hammond, of Nottingham University. --Daily Mail

Brean Hammond tries not to make extravagant claims (that this is Shakespeare s lost play)- he cites sceptical voices who note both the limits of early modern collaboration and Theobald s reputation for literary impersonation. But he clearly longs to believe that this is more than a fake or diluted version.

He presents a robust, if necessarily speculative, account of the text s progress...(it) certainly riffs on Shakespearean themes...(Double Falsehood) may only be the shadow of a shadow, but it is a tantalising one. ----Plays International, June 2011

The play s bardic provenance has been given fresh credibility by publishers Arden, who have included it in a new series of Shakespeare s work. The publication of the play, which is bound to spark heated scholarly discussion, comes after a ten year mission to crack a literary mystery by Professor Brean Hammond, of Nottingham University. --Daily Mail

L'autore

Brean Hammond is Professor of Modern English Literature at the University of Nottingham.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Bloomsbury Arden
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 190343677X
• ISBN 13: 9781903436776
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 3
• Numero di pagine: 443
• Redattore: Hammond Brean