Double Falshood; or, The Distrest Lovers: A Play, as it is Now Acted at the Theatre Royal in Covent-Garden, Written Originally by

by William Shakespeare

2021-01-01 23:05:04

Double Falshood was staged at the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane at the end of 1727, and the following year Lewis Theobald (1688-1744) published the text, which was reprinted several times. Theobald was an energetic editor who translated Sophocles'' Ele... Read more
Double Falshood was staged at the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane at the end of 1727, and the following year Lewis Theobald (1688-1744) published the text, which was reprinted several times. Theobald was an energetic editor who translated Sophocles'' Electra and Aristophanes'' Plutus for performance in London, wrote and edited many other dramatic works, and caused great controversy in literary circles with his Shakespeare Restored (1726), a critique of Pope''s edition. Scholars have debated for nearly three centuries to what extent, if at all, Double Falshood derives from a lost play by Shakespeare, as Theobald claimed. There is now widespread agreement that it is the only surviving version of Shakespeare and Fletcher''s Cardenio, which was based on episodes from Cervantes'' Don Quixote and is known to have been performed in 1613. Interest generated by the play''s partial acceptance into the Shakespearean canon has also led to modern revivals. Less

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File size8.5 X 5.51 X 0.2 in
Print pages86
PublisherCambridge University Press
Publication date July 1, 2010
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9781108019521
William Shakespeare (baptised 26 April 1564) was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often calle...

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