Get full access to The Daily Beast for $1 Inspired by 'Don Quixote,' Shakespeare's 'Cardenio' is believed to have been performed in 1612. But all written copies of the comedic drama have been lost. In ...

In the spring of 1613, the office of the Treasurer of the King's Chamber recorded two separate payments to the King's Men – William Shakespeare's company – for performances of a play called Cardenna ...

After 20 years of work, an American Shakespeare scholar is bringing his restoration of what he says is a lost play by the Bard to the stage. In 1613, royal records show payment was made to a ...

Cardenio, a drama of seduction, desire and betrayal set in 17th Century Spain, is described as “Shakespeare’s ‘lost play’ re-imagined”. It is based on a play of the same name which is thought to have ...

In 1995 Unesco named April 23 World Book Day because of a morbid literary coincidence. Both William Shakespeare and Miguel de Cervantes died April 23, 1616, the same exact date but 10 days apart, ...

Lewis Theobald’s Double Falsehood had its premiere at the Theatre Royal on Drury Lane on 13 December 1727. It was a romantic tragicomedy in a Spanish setting; the story was from an episode in Don ...

The plot revolves around the sexual misbehaviour of Fernando, who first seduces a wealthy farmer's daughter, Dorotea, with a legally-binding promise of marriage, then attempts to steal Cardenio's ...

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They're billing this at Stratford as Shakespeare's "Lost Play" Re-Imagined. The inverted commas are well placed, since it's a matter of surmise how much of it is really by the Bard himself. But what ...