The lecture continued the research begun the previous year on a play performed in 1613 at the English Court, entitled Cardenio. In 1653, the London bookseller Humphrey Moseley had the titles of forty-one plays registered by the Stationers' Company, a community of London booksellers and printers, giving him exclusive " right in copy ". Among them, The History of Cardenio, by Mr Fletcher. & Shakespeare, which is undoubtedly the play performed forty years earlier in Whitehall, and whose authors are named for the first time: Fletcher and Shakespeare. Moseley never published the play, leaving us with the mystery of the lost Cardenio.
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Textual circulations and cultural practices in 16th-18th-century Europe . Cardenio II. Between Cervantes, Shakespeare and Theobald
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