Shakespeare's Lost Play: In Search of Cardenio

by Gregory Doran

Many believe Cardenio , a play "lost" for centuries, to be the work of England's greatest dramatist. Gregory Doran, the Royal Shakespeare Company's new director, takes the reader on a fascinating search through the fog of literary history on his quest to discover and stage a missing masterpiece.

Genres: Shakespeare

288 pages, Paperback

First published September 11, 2012

Reviews

[Beth Harper · Rating 3 out of 5]

At first I couldn't put this down. But after a while, all the details, and the people involved, just piled up, and I couldn't keep track of things. The narrative alternates between the history of the play & the manuscript (or educated guesses as to what could happen), and Doran and company's trying to reconstruct the play itself. I can see why the author chose that structure, but I think I would've preferred the book divided into two distinct sections.