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The Double Falshood and The Spanish Curate: a further Fletcher connection.(John Fletcher)(authorship of the play Double Falshood; or, The Distrest Lovers)(Critical essay)
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January 1, 2007|
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In 1727, Lewis Theobald declared that he had discovered a lost Shakespeare, which he published a year later under the title Double Falshood; or, The Distrest Lovers. Scholarly argument has hitherto focused on whether the play was based on the lost Shakespeare-Fletcher play Cardenio, or whether the play was partially or entirely by Theobald himself. (1) Comparatively little attention has been paid to the source materials to the play, except to note that it seems based on a passage in Cervantes's Don Quixote. (2)
True, the play's two main characters, Leonora and Julio, ...
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