Revisiting Shakespeare’s Lost Play

Deborah C. Payne is an Associate Professor of Literature at American University. She specializes in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century drama, theatre history, and performance theory. Her publications include Cultural Readings of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century English Theatre, co-edited with J. Douglas Canfield; The Cambridge Companion to English Restoration Theatre; and Four Restoration Libertine Plays. Recently she completed The Commodiluxe Stage: A New History of Restoration Theatre, 1660-1700.

Introduction; Fiona Ritchie.- Believers versus Skeptics: An Assessment of the Cardenio/Double Falsehood Problem;Robert D. Hume.- The Jolt of Jacobean Tragicomedy: Double Falsehood on the Eighteenth-Century English Stage; Diana Solomon.- Ghostwriting: Lewis Theobald's Double Falsehood as Adaptation; Jean I. Marsden.- Textual Skirmishes and Theatrical Frays: Putting Double Falsehood Back in the Eighteenth Century; Deborah C. Payne.- Bibliography.- Index.