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GREGORY DORAN (1958 - )
Nationality: Britishemail: n/a Website: n/a
Literary Agent: Independent Talent Group Limited
Gregory Doran is the RSC's Chief associate Director. His most recent work includes the critically-acclaimed productions of antony and Cleopatra and The Canterbury Tales.
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Cardenio Merry Wives - The MusicalCardenio
Set in the heat and dust of Andalusia in seventeenth-century Spain, Cardenio is the story of a friendship betrayed, with all the elements of a thriller: disguise, dishonour and deceit. A woman is seduced, a bride is forced to the altar, and a man runs mad among the mountains of the Sierra Morena. The history of the play is every bit as thrilling, and this text is the result of a masterful act of literary archaeology by the Royal Shakespeare Company's Chief Associate Director Gregory Doran, to re-imagine a previously lost play by Shakespeare. Based on an episode in Cervantes' Don Quixote, the play known as Cardenio by Shakespeare and John Fletcher was performed at court in 1612. A copy of their collaboration has never been found; however, it is claimed that Double Falshood by Lewis Theobald is an eighteenth-century adaptation of it. Since Theobald's play misses out some crucial scenes in the plot, Doran has turned to the Cervantes original to supply the missing episodes, using the original English translation by Thomas Shelton (1612) that Fletcher and Shakespeare must themselves have read.
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By William Shakespeare and John Fletcher Edited by Gregory Doran and Antonio Alamo
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Nick Hern Books 978-1848421806
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When Sir John Falstaff sets out to woo a rich mistress to solve his financial worries, he soon discovers that the Wives of Windsor are more than a match for him. Love, song, laughter and merriment combine in a new musical version of Shakespeare's popular comedy.
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Original Playwright - Shakespeare. Adapted by Gregory Doran, music by Paul Engishby, lyrics by Ranjit Bolt. Merry Wives - The Musical was first performed At the RSC in December 2006 As part of the Complete Works festival. The production featured Simon Callow As Falstaff And Judi Dench As Mistress Quickly, with music by Paul Englishby.
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