Contributions by Carlos Gamerro
Carlos Gamerro Carlos Gamerro was born in Argentina. He has published the novels Las Islas (1998, The Islands, 2012), El secreto y las voces (2002, An Open Secret, 2011)) and La aventura de los bustos de Eva (2004; The Adventure of the Busts of Eva Perón, 2015) and Cardenio (2106), about Shakespeare’s lost play based on Don Quixote. He has translated Shakespeare’s Hamlet and The Merchant of Venice into Spanish. He has written books on Borges and Joyce; his essays on Argentine literature, Facundo o Martín Fierro, won the Best Book of 2015 Award at the Buenos Aires Book Fair.
Cardenio (excerpt)
Carlos Gamerro
They lived together on the Bankside, not far from the playhouse, both bachelors; lay together; had one wench in the house between them, which they did so admire; the same clothes and cloak etc. between them.
—John Aubrey, Brief Lives
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October to November 1612
Letter from John Fletcher to Francis Beaumont, 31st October 1612.
My dear Damon,
I began work on our Cardenio yesterday with Will, or rather on Will with Cardenio, for I was forced to play the peddler and urge its many virtues and beauties, all but begging him to help me write it: to this state your desertion has brought me. The going was not easy, and he is far from won over yet. The story we so often read to one another with such delight and so dreamed of bringing on the … Read More »
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