10:38 16/03/2010 » Culture

Shakespeare's lost play 'found' after 250 years

An 18th-century drama attributed to the Bard but dismissed as a hoax, truly is his work, according to an expert in the literature of the time.
Double Falsehood, published by Lewis Theobald in 1728, is a version of Shakespeare's long-lost play Cardenio, he believes.

The original was a collaboration between Shakespeare and John Fletcher, his successor as house playwright to the King's Men company. It was performed twice in 1613 but never made it into print and was lost to history. 

Source: Panorama.am

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