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About the Author
David Carnegie is Research Professor of Theatre at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. He is co-editor of the Cambridge edition of The Works of John Webster, and has published widely on Elizabethan drama and stagecraft. He has also worked professionally as a director, dramaturg, and critic, and directed the first full production of Gary Taylor's 'creative reconstruction' of Double Falsehood entitled The History of Cardenio. Gary Taylor is George Matthew Edgar Professor of English at Florida State University. He is general editor of prize-winning, innovative Oxford editions of Shakespeare's Complete Works and Middleton's Collected Works, as well as a prize-winning book on Shakespeare in performance, Moment by Moment by Shakespeare. In addition to his twenty-two scholarly books, he has written for newspapers and magazines on both sides of the Atlantic, been widely interviewed on radio and television, and spoken at major theatres in the UK, USA, and Canada. His reconstruction of The History of Cardenio has been developed through workshops and readings at many theatres, including Shakespeare's Globe (London), the Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, the American Shakespeare Center, and the Shakespeare Theatre in Washington D.C.
Reviews
Offering new research findings based on a range of approaches...this book throws new light on whether the play deserves a place in Shakespeare's canon and/or Fletcher's. * Anna Faktorovich, Pensylvania Literary Journal *
the most substantial and comprehensive volume on the Cardenio affair to appear this year, or ever. * Julia Reinhard Lupton, SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 *
One of the valuable features of the collection is that conflicting views are represented, and moreover, the contributors seem to have read one another's essays, so there is a productive dialogue going on ... this collection marks a major step forward in the discussion, with an impressive variety of viewpoints and a good mixture of imaginative and carefully empirical scholarship. * Hugh Craig, Comparative Drama *
Book Information
ISBN 9780199641819
Author David Carnegie
Format Hardback
Page Count 436
Imprint Oxford University Press
Publisher Oxford University Press
Weight(grams) 826g
Dimensions(mm) 241mm * 169mm * 30mm