Monday, March 14, 2011
Disputed Shakespeare Play at Classic Stage Company
NYTimes.com: "Though “The Tempest” has been long acknowledged as William Shakespeare’s final work, in the last several decades many scholars have accepted that he collaborated with John Fletcher on at least three plays: “The Two Noble Kinsmen,” “Henry VIII” and finally, “Cardenio,” which was probably based on an episode in Cervantes’s “Don Quixote.” “Cardenio” played twice, in 1612 and 1613. Then, except for one brief mention in a 1653 publishers’ list, what may have been Shakespeare’s last script vanished from sight.
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One of the best non-fiction works I have read is called "Shakespeare Wars," and it concerns mainly academia's debates: which folio is best, how much did the printers alter, anti-Stratfordianism... This is a whole new can of worms for that subject. I think this controversy alone makes it interesting enough to produce, although I'm sure the text itself has a lot of merits. I liked that this article mentioned that it would likely not change anything about Shakespeare, just give us more to work with. I would be interested especially in the talk back - that is the most important part of this production, as I see it. An opportunity for academics and artists and theatre-goers to question each other and really develop ideas about this play, Shakespeare, and theatre history.
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