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DESCRIPTION:Professor Chartier is Directeur d'Etudes\, Ecole des hautes\net
 udes en sciences sociales\, Paris\, and Professeur\, College de\nFrance.\n
 Seminar on The History of Cardenio\nThe story begins with a warrant signed
  by the treasurer of the\nPrivy Chamber and dated May 20th\, 1613. It orde
 red the payment of\n153 pounds to Johh Heminges and the company of the Kin
 g’s Men for\nhaving performed at the court at Whitehall nineteen plays dur
 ing\nthe previous months. Among them is listed a play of which the title\n
 is ‘Cardenno’. The play is without any doubt the first English\ntheatrical
  adaptation based on Don Quixote whose\ntranslation into English by Thomas
  Shelton was published in 1612.\nIt is only in 1653 that the first attribu
 tion of the play appeared\nwhen the stationer Humphrey Moseley entered int
 o the register of\nthe Stationers’ Company among forty-one plays “The Hist
 ory of\nCardenio\, by Mr. Fletcher. & Shakespeare”. But Moseley never\nuse
 d the right in copy he had on Cardenio and he never\npublished the play th
 at seems lost forever. In this seminar I would\nlike to examine how this v
 ery absence has recently transformed the\nlost Cardenio in a good plot for
  novels\, a matter for\nmultiple theatrical plays\, and an obsession for S
 hakespearean\ncriticism. I would like also to look at Cardenio without\nSh
 akespeare and to analyze how other European playwrights (Guillén\nde Castr
 o in Spain\, Pichou in France) responded to the challenge\nlaunched by the
  difficulty to construct a play based on the complex\nnarrative of Don Qui
 xote. And\, finally\, coming back to\nEngland\, to deal with the only poss
 ible trace of the play performed\nin 1613. In 1727 Lewis Theobald had not 
 written a play title\nThe Double Falshood\, or the Distrest Lovers publish
 ed the\nfollowing year and presented on the title-page as “Written\nOrigin
 ally by W. Shakespeare\; and now Revised and Adapted to the\nStage by Mr. 
 Theobald\, the author of Shakespeare Restor’d”.\nTheobald who was at the t
 ime preparing his edition of Shakespeare’s\nworks claimed to possess three
  copies of the mid-seventeenth\ncentury original play. He gave new names t
 o the characters but his\nplay staged faithfully the story as it is narrat
 ed in Cervantes.\nFaithfully\, but without Don Quixote and Sancho who are 
 not\nprotagonists in Theobald’s adaptation. Was it the case in 1613? Did\n
 Moseley really own copies of the play performed at Whitehall? And\nif he d
 id not lie\, how did he “revise” and “adapt” the old play to\nthe new thea
 trical conventions established during the Restoration?\nTo answer such que
 stions leads to an exercise in imaginative\nliterary criticism contrasting
 \, on the one hand\, the freedom of\ntextual experiments made possible by 
 the absence of the Ur-text\nand\, on other hand\, the fixity of the author
 ial attribution. \nRSVP: /iplai/events/registration/
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LOCATION:Birks Building\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 2A7\, 3520 rue Universit
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SUMMARY:Roger Chartier\, The History of Cardenio
URL:/channels/event/roger-chartier-history-cardenio-10
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