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

by Taylor, Gary; Bourus, Terri

• ISBN13: 9781137344205
• ISBN10: 1137344202
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2013-09-19
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Did Shakespeare really join John Fletcher to write Cardenio, a lost play based on Don Quixote? In 2009, the world's first academic symposium dedicated to the "lost play" was convened in New Zealand. Since then, a flurry of activity has confirmed the play's place in the literary canon. Drawing on cutting-edge scholarship and organized around the first full-scale production of Gary Taylor's recreation of the Jacobean play, these sixteen essays suggest the play was not "lost" but was instead deliberately "disappeared" because of its controversial treatment of race and sexuality.
Breaking new ground, this collection gives equal attention to Shakespeare, Cervantes, and Fletcher. With an emphasis on the importance of theatrical experiment and performance, a copy of Taylor's script, a photographic record of Bourus's production, and historical research by respected scholars in the fields of early modern England and Spain, this book makes a bold and definitive statement about the collaborative nature of Cardenio.

Author Biography

TERRI BOURUS is Associate Professor of English Drama at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, USA. She is the director and producer of the Indianapolis production of The History of Cardenio (2012) and the General Editor of the New Oxford Shakespeare. She founded Hoosier Bard Productions and has edited multimedia editions of Hamlet and A Midsummer Night's Dream, and digital editions of two plays by John Fletcher. She has taught professional workshops on musical theatre, auditioning, and stage combat in Chicago, New York, and London, and won seven Indiana University teaching awards.
 
GARY TAYLOR is Distinguished Research Professor of English at Florida State University, USA. He is the lead General Editor of the New Oxford Shakespeare project, forthcoming in 2016. He is the author of 22 books, including Moment by Moment by Shakespeare (winner of a Choice Award for "Outstanding Academic Book"), Reinventing Shakespeare ('the most ambitious book on Shakespeare ever written', according to Shakespeare Quarterly), Cultural Selection, Castration: An Abbreviated History of Western Manhood, and The Quest for Cardenio: Shakespeare, Fletcher, Cervantes and the Lost Play, co-edited with David Carnegie. He has also co-edited John Fletcher's The Tamer Tamed and was General Editor of OUP's 2007 edition of The Collected Works of Thomas Middleton, which won both the Modern Languages Association prize for a Distinguished Scholarly Edition and the Elizabeth Dietz award for Outstanding Book in Early Modern Studies.

Table of Contents

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