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8%OFFGregory Doran - Shakespeare´s Lost Play: In Search of Cardenio - 9781848422087 - V9781848422087
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Shakespeare´s Lost Play: In Search of Cardenio

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Description for Shakespeare´s Lost Play: In Search of Cardenio Paperback. A woman seduced and a friend betrayed; desire, deceit and disguise in the heat and dust of Andalucia. RSC Chief Associate Director Gregory Doran spent years investigating the mystery of Shakespeare's lost play. This is his story, a quest to discover and stage a missing masterpiece. Num Pages: 264 pages, illustrations (some colour). BIC Classification: 2AB; ANF; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 141 x 16. Weight in Grams: 338.

Gregory Doran's account of his quest to re-discover Cardenio, the lost play written by Shakespeare and John Fletcher. A thrilling act of literary detection that takes him from the Bodleian Library in Oxford, via Cervantes' Spain to the stage of the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford.

Fully illustrated throughout, Shakespeare’s Lost Play tells a fascinating story, which, like the play itself, will engross Shakespeare buffs and theatregoers alike.

Doran’s much-praised production of Cardenio for the Royal Shakespeare Company marked the culmination of years spent searching for a famously 'lost’ play co-authored by William Shakespeare. In this book, Doran ... Read more

The result, as the Guardian attested, is ‘an extraordinary and theatrically powerful piece, one that should both please audiences and keep academic scholars in work for years’.

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Product Details

Publisher
Nick Hern Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
264
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781848422087
SKU
V9781848422087
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-50

About Gregory Doran
Gregory Doran is the Chief Associate Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company and, from September 2012, its Artistic Director. Described by the Sunday Times as 'one of the great Shakespearians of his generation', Doran has directed over half the canon of Shakespeare's plays at Stratford.

Reviews for Shakespeare´s Lost Play: In Search of Cardenio
'Part detective story, part lively summary of the historic research and theatrical processes involved in resurrecting a lost play... It is one of the pleasures of Shakespeare's Lost Play that the reader picks up an education in a whole range of topics'
Around the Globe magazine
'Throughout Doran is a charming and invariably helpful  guide... Furthermore, he successfully ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for Shakespeare´s Lost Play: In Search of Cardenio


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