Comments on: Cardenio Characters List https://nosweatshakespeare.com <strong><a href="/">Modern Shakespeare</a></strong> resources, <strong><a href="/sonnets/">sonnet translations</a></strong> & lots more! Tue, 29 Dec 2020 18:19:59 +0000 hourly 1 By: Jonah Epstein https://nosweatshakespeare.com/characters/cardenio/comment-page-1/#comment-2954145 Tue, 29 Dec 2020 18:19:59 +0000 https://nosweatshakespeare.com/?page_id=9602#comment-2954145 Forgot to mention:

Fernando is renamed Henriquez by Theobald in “Double Falsehood.

]]> By: Jonah Epstein https://nosweatshakespeare.com/characters/cardenio/comment-page-1/#comment-2954144 Tue, 29 Dec 2020 17:58:58 +0000 https://nosweatshakespeare.com/?page_id=9602#comment-2954144 This is the character list of Thomas Middleton’s “The Second Maiden’s Tragedy”, not Cardenio.
Here is the actual character list of Shakespeare & Fletcher’s Cardenio:

The Duke of Andalusia

Roderick, the Duke’s eldest son

Fernando, the Duke’s youngest son

Cardenio (renamed Julio by Theobald in “Double Falsehood”), Fernando’s friend, and in love with Luscinda

Camillo, Cardenio’s father

Luscinda (renamed Leonora), courted by Cardenio

Bernardo, Lucinda’s father

Violante, a farmer’s daughter, courted by Fernando

Violenta’s maid-servant

Lucinda’s maid-servant

Master of the Shepherds

Two Shepherds

Citizens

Servants

Musicians

Mourners

– Characters removed by Theobald in “Double Falsehood”:

Don Quixote, a madman believing himself to me a medieval knight

Sancho, Quixote’s companion

A Curate, who follows Quixote in pursuit

A Barber, who follows Quixote in pursuit alongside the Curate

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