Professor Brean Hammond from the School of English Studies has found evidence of a ‘lost play’ by Shakespeare and has won the backing of the acclaimed Shakespeare publishers, Arden, with the publication of his new book, Double Falsehood, or the Distressed Lovers.
Professor Hammond has spent the past 10 years researching the origins of the play, Double Falsehood, by an 18th century scholar, Lewis Theobald, who claimed it was a re-working of an original play by the Bard himself. Theobald’s claims that he had three original Shakespeare texts, now lost, were largely dismissed until now. Professor Hammond believes he has found credible evidence that indeed links Theobald’s play back to Shakespeare’s ‘lost play’, Cardenio; a collaboration between Shakespeare and John Fletcher performed in 1613.
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Posted on Tuesday 16th March 2010