- Title Pages
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- List of Illustrations
- List of Contributors
- 1 Introduction
- 2 A History of <i>The History of Cardenio</i>
- 3 After Arden
- 4 <i>Cardenio</i> and the Eighteenth-Century Shakespeare Canon
- 5 Malone’s <i>Double Falsehood</i> <sup>*</sup>
- 6 ‘Whether one did Contrive, the Other Write,/Or one Fram’d the Plot, the Other did Indite’: Fletcher and Theobald as Collaborative Writers
- 7 Looking for Shakespeare in <i>Double Falsehood</i>: Stylistic Evidence
- 8 Can <i>Double Falsehood</i> Be Merely a Forgery by Lewis Theobald?
- 9 Theobald’s Pattern of Adaptation: <i>The Duchess of Malfi</i> and <i>Richard II</i>
- 10 Four Characters in Search of a Subplot: Quixote, Sancho, and <i>Cardenio</i>
- 11 <i>Don Quixote</i> and Shakespeare’s Collaborative Turn to Romance*
- 12 The Friend in <i>Cardenio, Double Falsehood</i>, and <i>Don Quixote</i>
- 13 Transvestism, Transformation, and Text: Cross-dressing and Gender Roles in <i>Double Falsehood</i>/<i>The History of Cardenio</i>
- 14 In This Good Time: <i>Cardenio</i> and the Temporal Character of Shakespearean Drama
- 15 A Select Chronology of <i>Cardenio</i>
- 16 The Embassy, The City, The Court, The Text: <i>Cardenio</i> Performed in 1613
- 17 <i>Cardenio</i> without Shakespeare
- 18 Nostalgia for the Cervantes–Shakespeare Link: Charles David Ley’s <i>Historia de Cardenio</i>
- 19 Cultural Mobility and Transitioning Authority: Greenblatt’s <i>Cardenio Project</i>
- 20 Reimagining <i>Cardenio</i>
- 21 Will the Real <i>Cardenio</i> Please Stand Up? Richards’s <i>Cardenio</i> in Cambridge
- 22 Theobald Restor’d: <i>Double Falsehood</i> at the Union Theatre, Southwark
- 23 Restoring <i>Double Falsehood</i> to the Perpendicular for the RSC*
- 24 Exploring <i>The History of Cardenio</i> in Performance
- 25 Taylor’s <i>The History of Cardenio</i> in Wellington
- 26 ‘May I be metamorphosed’: <i>Cardenio</i> by Stages
- Works Cited
- Index
Taylor’s The History of Cardenio in Wellington
Taylor’s The History of Cardenio in Wellington
- Chapter:
- (p.383) 25 Taylor’s The History of Cardenio in Wellington
- Source:
- The Quest for Cardenio
- Author(s):
David Lawrence
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This chapter discusses the May 2009 performance of Gary Taylor’s adaptation of Double Falsehood as The History of Cardenio, directed by David Carnegie and Lori Leigh in Wellington, New Zealand. It is a critical review looking at how the production realized the requirements of the text, with primary focus on the performances of the actors playing the two central couples in the play, but also considering the staging, design, costuming, and audiences’ reception of the production.
Keywords: Gary Taylor, History of Cardenio, review, directing, performance, thrust staging, Lords’ Room, reception
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- Title Pages
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- List of Illustrations
- List of Contributors
- 1 Introduction
- 2 A History of <i>The History of Cardenio</i>
- 3 After Arden
- 4 <i>Cardenio</i> and the Eighteenth-Century Shakespeare Canon
- 5 Malone’s <i>Double Falsehood</i> <sup>*</sup>
- 6 ‘Whether one did Contrive, the Other Write,/Or one Fram’d the Plot, the Other did Indite’: Fletcher and Theobald as Collaborative Writers
- 7 Looking for Shakespeare in <i>Double Falsehood</i>: Stylistic Evidence
- 8 Can <i>Double Falsehood</i> Be Merely a Forgery by Lewis Theobald?
- 9 Theobald’s Pattern of Adaptation: <i>The Duchess of Malfi</i> and <i>Richard II</i>
- 10 Four Characters in Search of a Subplot: Quixote, Sancho, and <i>Cardenio</i>
- 11 <i>Don Quixote</i> and Shakespeare’s Collaborative Turn to Romance*
- 12 The Friend in <i>Cardenio, Double Falsehood</i>, and <i>Don Quixote</i>
- 13 Transvestism, Transformation, and Text: Cross-dressing and Gender Roles in <i>Double Falsehood</i>/<i>The History of Cardenio</i>
- 14 In This Good Time: <i>Cardenio</i> and the Temporal Character of Shakespearean Drama
- 15 A Select Chronology of <i>Cardenio</i>
- 16 The Embassy, The City, The Court, The Text: <i>Cardenio</i> Performed in 1613
- 17 <i>Cardenio</i> without Shakespeare
- 18 Nostalgia for the Cervantes–Shakespeare Link: Charles David Ley’s <i>Historia de Cardenio</i>
- 19 Cultural Mobility and Transitioning Authority: Greenblatt’s <i>Cardenio Project</i>
- 20 Reimagining <i>Cardenio</i>
- 21 Will the Real <i>Cardenio</i> Please Stand Up? Richards’s <i>Cardenio</i> in Cambridge
- 22 Theobald Restor’d: <i>Double Falsehood</i> at the Union Theatre, Southwark
- 23 Restoring <i>Double Falsehood</i> to the Perpendicular for the RSC*
- 24 Exploring <i>The History of Cardenio</i> in Performance
- 25 Taylor’s <i>The History of Cardenio</i> in Wellington
- 26 ‘May I be metamorphosed’: <i>Cardenio</i> by Stages
- Works Cited
- Index
