Cardenio
Cardenio is a play suppsed to have been written by William Shakespare, but
lost to modern scholars. According to Wikipedia's page on Cardenio, it's "known to
have been performed by the King's Men, a London theatre company, in 1613. It
is believed to have been written by William Shakespeare, probably in
collaboration with John Fletcher."
- Double
Falshood; or, The Distrest Lovers. Wikipedia on Double
Falshood: "Double Falshood is a play by Lewis Theobald, produced in
1727 and published in 1728, which he claimed to have based on three
manuscripts dating from the time of the English Restoration of an unnamed
lost play by Shakespeare."
- The Second Maiden's
Tragedy. From the Wikipedia Cardenio entry: "In 1990, Charles
Hamilton, a handwriting expert, after seeing a 1611 manuscript known as
The Second Maiden's Tragedy, usually attributed to Thomas Middleton,
identified it as the missing Cardenio with names changed."
Sean B. Palmer