Synopsis

Cardenio

Cardenio $14.99

William Shakespeare edited Greg Doran

Published by Nick Hern Books

Large Mixed Cast
Shakespeare's "lost play" re-imagined ...

Set in the heat and dust of Andalusia in seventeenth-century Spain, Cardenio is the story of a friendship betrayed, with all the elements of a thriller - disguise, dishonour and deceit

A woman is seduced, a bride is forced to the altar, and a man runs mad among the mountains of the Sierra Morena

Based on an episode in Cervantes' Don Quixote, the play known as Cardenio by Shakespeare and John Fletcher was performed at court in 1612

A copy of their collaboration has never been found; however, it is claimed that Double Falsehood by Lewis Theobald is an eighteenth-century adaptation of it

Since Theobald's play misses out some crucial scenes in the plot, Doran has turned to the Cervantes original to supply the missing episodes, using the original English translation by Thomas Shelton (1612) that Fletcher and Shakespeare must themselves have read

Cardenio re-opened the Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, as part of the Royal Shakespeare Company's fiftieth birthday season in 2011

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