Stefanie C Peters

I was so deliriously happy that The Millions decided to publish an essay of mine on May 18 that I forgot to post it on my own website until now. In “Found (Again): Shakespeare’s Lost Play Double Falsehood,” I discuss the strange history of Shakespeare’s “lost” play Cardenio, or Double Falsehood. It involves illegitimate children, literary grudges, monopolists, and a surprising amount of copyright law. Here’s the beginning:

William Shakespeare hasn’t had a new play since 1612. But last month in the UK and this month in the US, Arden—one of the most respected publishers of scholarly editions of Shakespeare’s plays—published a “new” play by Shakespeare, edited by Brean Hammond: Double Falsehood, a play that has been lost and found and lost again…

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