March 16, 2010
“Double Falsehood”
A play written in the 18th century by Lewis Theobald — and said to be based on “Cardenio”, a lost play by Shakespeare — has been published as a missing piece of Shakespeare’s work.
Alexander Pope, who had feuded with Theobald, chose the playwright as the focus of “The Dunciad” — a work in which a dunce replaces the Iliad’s hero. And Pope’s work is what brought Hammond from the 18th century to Shakespeare. He was working on Pope in the 1980s, and decided to investigate “Double Falsehood” further.
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