One of the heroic dramaturlogical efforts of the last three decades has been recovering the list play of Shakespeare, History of Cardenio. It has involved statisticians working with historians and literary theorists. As the resurrected Cardenio receives its first North American performance at IUPUI, hear what went into putting the play together.

When: Friday April 20 5:30 pm
Where: IUPUI Campus Center Theatre

Lecture is free and open to all.

Gary Taylor is George Matthew Edgar Professor of English at Florida State University, General Editor of the New Oxford Shakespeare, editor and co-author of The History of Cardenio. Dr. Taylor will speak about how a Shakespeare play could be lost, and the scholarly research and theatrical experiments used to identify its fragments and put them back together again. His 22 books include Castration: An Abbreviated History of Western Manhood, editions of Shakespeare, John Fletcher, and their contemporary Thomas Middleton, and The Quest for Cardenio: Shakespeare, Fletcher, Cervantes and the Lost Play (forthcoming from Oxford University Press in 2012). He has lectured widely at theaters and universities around the world, written for the Guardian (London) and Time Magazine, and been interviewed on “Fresh Air,” “All Things Considered,” the BBC, and Canadian and New Zealand TV and radio.