Possibly Reworked Shakespearean Play Addded to Literary Collection

As reported by the New York Times, Brean Hammond, a professor from the University of Nottingham in England, claims that he has discovered evidence that an 18th century play contains reworked material by Shakespeare.  Hammond has received an endorsement from the Arden Shakespeare, an anthology of Shakespeare's pieces.

The university announced that the new edition of the Arden Third Series anthology, will include Double Falsehood, or the Distressed Lovers by Lewis Theobald. Theobald, an 18th-century scholar,  claimed that the play was based on three of Shakespeare's lost pieces. This claim has finally been backed up with the proof provided by Hammond.

Hammond believes that  Double Falsehood, or the Distressed Lovers, can be linked to the Shakespeare and John Fletcher Collaboration Cardenio, which was performed in 1613.  The inclusion of  Double Falsehood, or the Distressed Lovers in Arden 3 means that Cardenio is finally acessible to the public after 250 years of being lost.

Theobald's Double Falsehood, or The Distrest Lovers was performed in 1727 at the Drury Lane theatre in London, along with the claim that it was based on Cardenio. The play is much shorter than a normal Shakespeare play including no long speeches. It is however, full of action that revolves around two men and two women, including an aristocratic villain named Henriquez.

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