{"product_id":"9781848421806-cardenio","title":"Cardenio","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eShakespeare's 'lost play' re-imagined. \u003cp\u003eSet in the heat and dust of Andalusia in seventeenth-century Spain, \u003cem\u003eCardenio\u003c\/em\u003e is the story of a friendship betrayed, with all the elements of a thriller: disguise, dishonour and deceit.\u003c\/p\u003e. \u003cp\u003eSet in the heat and dust of Andalusia in seventeenth-century Spain, \u003cem\u003eCardenio\u003c\/em\u003e is the story of a friendship betrayed, with all the elements of a thriller: disguise, dishonour and deceit.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA woman is seduced, a bride is forced to the altar, and a man runs mad among the mountains of the Sierra Morena.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe history of the play is every bit as thrilling, and this text is the result of a masterful act of literary archaeology by the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Chief Associate Director Gregory Doran, to re-imagine a previously lost play by Shakespeare. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBased on an episode in Cervantes’ \u003cem\u003eDon Quixote\u003c\/em\u003e, the play known as \u003cem\u003eCardenio \u003c\/em\u003eby Shakespeare and John Fletcher was performed at court in 1612. A copy of their collaboration has never been found; however, it is claimed that \u003cem\u003eDouble Falshood\u003c\/em\u003e by Lewis Theobald is an eighteenth-century adaptation of it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSince 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCardenio\u003c\/em\u003e re-opened the Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, as part of the Royal Shakespeare Company's fiftieth birthday season in 2011.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41673789931617,"sku":"9781848421806","price":11.14,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_16452514_jpg.jpg?v=1715258260","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781848421806-cardenio","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}