The Creation and Re-Creation of Cardenio: Performing Shakespeare, Transforming Cervantes

Front Matter....Pages i-xviii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The Passion of Readers, the Imitation of Texts: The History of Reading in the Quest for Cardenio....Pages 3-14
Reading Cervantes, or Shelton, or Phillips? The Source(s) of Cardenio and Double Falsehood....Pages 15-29
The 1612 Don Quixote and the Windet-Stansby Printing House....Pages 31-46
Quixote on the English Stage: A New Glimpse of The History of Cardenio?....Pages 47-59
Blessed with a Baby or “Bum-Fidled with a Bastard”? Maternity in Fletcher’s The Chances and Cervantes’ Novela de la Señora Cornelia....Pages 61-72
Girls on the Run: Love’s Pilgrimage, The Coxcomb, and Double Falsehood....Pages 73-82
Furious Soldiers and Mad Lovers: Plotting Fletcher and The History of Cardenio....Pages 83-94
“Shall I Never See a Lusty Man Again?”: John Fletcher’s Men, 1608–1715....Pages 95-107
Shakespeare, Theobald, and the Prose Problem in Double Falsehood....Pages 109-123
Sleight of Mind: Cognitive Illusions and Shakespearian Desire....Pages 125-169
The “Unscene” and Unstaged in Double Falsehood, Cardenio, and Shakespeare’s Romances....Pages 171-184
Performing Spanish Culture through Flamenco: Aurality and Embodiment in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Cardenio....Pages 185-196
Poner en escena The History of Cardenio....Pages 197-217
Time Begets a Wonder: The History of Cardenio at IUPUI....Pages 219-225
Cardenio: Shakespeare’s Lost Race Play?....Pages 227-234
Front Matter....Pages 239-239
A Posthumous Collaborator’s Preface....Pages 237-240
The History of Cardenio, 1612–2012....Pages 241-316
Back Matter....Pages 321-329