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Cardenio, or, The second maiden's tragedy, William Shakespeare and John Fletcher ; [edited and with notes by] Charles Hamilton

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Cardenio, or, The second maiden's tragedy, William Shakespeare and John Fletcher ; [edited and with notes by] Charles Hamilton

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eng

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-264) and index

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illustrations

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index present

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non fiction

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Cardenio, or, The second maiden's tragedy

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bibliography

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30372496

Responsibility statement

William Shakespeare and John Fletcher ; [edited and with notes by] Charles Hamilton

Summary

Long sought by scholars as the Holy Grail of world literature, and masquerading under the censor's makeshift title, "The second maiden's tragedy," this lost play was discovered by Charles Hamilton, a forensic document examiner and literary historian

Table Of Contents

Shakespeare's "lost" play -- Paleographic evidence -- Lodestar; Shakespeare's Will -- Handwriting of Shakespeare and his contemporaries -- Shakespeare and Cervantes; collaborators -- Shakespeare and Fletcher -- Cardenio and the maid's tragedy -- Cardenio and Theobald's double falsehood -- Other candidates for authorship of Cardenio

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