Collaborative play writing/Cardenio
The following text is based on Double Falsehood (1727) by Lewis Theobald, an adaptation of the lost "The History of Cardenio" by John Fletcher and William Shakespeare (1613). Only a small part of the original version of the play, perhaps 1%, sounded like either of the 17th century authors. The purpose of the project is to make it more Shakespeare-like, or at least more Fletcher-like. At the present moment, the entire play has been redone and sounds much more like an 17th century work. The names of most of the characters have been changed back to the original version of the story, namely the Cardenio episodes (chapters 24, 27, 28, 29, and 36) in Miguel de Cervantes' "Don Quixote" (1605 and 1615).
Cardenio
Dramatic characters (14)
Cardenio
Luscinda
The duke of Osuna
Fernando, his elder son
Rodrigo, his younger son
Violante
Bernardo, father to Luscinda
Camillo, father to Cardenio
Fabian, Camillo's brother
Giraldo, servant to Fernando
Ancianida, duenna to Violante and then Luscinda
Master of the goats
A goatherd
Laurencia, an abbess
Servants
SCENE. The province of Andalusia in Spain
TIME: Early 17th century