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Malone's Double Falsehood

The chapter discusses the marginal notes Edmond Malone made in his copy of the second issue of the 1728 edition of Double Falsehood. Malone’s observations are placed in the context of other eighteenth-century attempts to understand the relationship between Theobald’s play and (The History of) Cardenio, especially those of Isaac Reed and George Steevens, hitherto neglected by scholars. New information on the fate of the surviving external evidence relating to Double Falsehood and Cardenio is presented and interpreted within the larger framework of eighteenth-century attribution studies. The insights gained from this act of historical recovery are then brought to bear on the current discussion of Shakespeare’s collaborative plays.

Renaissance Studies, Shakespeare, Authorship Attribution, 18th Century British Literature, English Renaissance Literature

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