Did Shakespeare really join John Fletcher to write Cardenio, a lost play based on Don Quixote? With an emphasis on the importance of theatrical experiment, a script and photos from Gary Taylor's recent production, and essays by respected early modern scholars, this book will make a definitive statement about the collaborative nature of Cardenio.

This book will make a definitive statement about the collaborative nature of Cardenio

Foreword: Mr Fletcher and Shakespeare. [and Theobald]; Roger Chartier PART I 1. The Passion of Readers, the Imitation of Texts: The History of Reading in the Quest for Cardenio ; Elizabeth Spiller 2. Reading Cervantes, or Shelton, or Phillips: The Source(s) of Cardenio and Double Falsehood ; Gary Taylor and Steven Wagschal 3. The 1612 Don Quixote and the Windet-Stansby Printing House; David Gants 4. Quixote on the English Stage: A New Glimpse of Cardenio ?; Gerald Baker 5. Blessed with a Baby or 'bum-fiddled with a bastard'?: Maternity in Fletcher's The Chances and Cervantes' Novela de la señora Cornelia ; Joyce Boro 6. Girls on the Run: Love's Pilgrimage , The Coxcomb , and Double Falsehood ; Christopher Hicklin 7. Furious Soldiers and Mad Lovers: Plotting Fletcher and The History of Cardenio ; Vimala C. Pasupathi 8. 'Shall I never see a lusty man again?' John Fletcher's Men, 1608-1715; Huw Griffiths 9. Shakespeare, Theobald, and the Prose Problem in Double Falsehood ; John V. Nance 10. Sleight of Mind: Cognitive Illusions and Shakespearian Desire; Gary Taylor 11. The 'Unscene' and Unstaged in Double Falsehood , Cardenio , and Shakespeare's Romances; Lori Leigh 12. Performing Spanish Culture Through Flamenco: Aurality and Embodiment in the Royal Shakespeare Company's Cardenio ; Carla della Gatta 13. Poner en escena The History of Cardenio ; Terri Bourus 14. Review of The History of Cardenio (2012); Gerald Baker 15. Cardenio : Shakespeare's Lost Race Play?; Ayanna Thompson PART II 16. A Posthumous Collaborator's Preface; Gary Taylor 17. The History of Cardenio , 1612-2012; John Fletcher, William Shakespeare, and Gary Taylor