History documents the fact that a Shakespeare play titled Cardenio was performed at London’s Globe Theater in 1613. References to the play turn up in various diaries and documents written in the 1600s. Cardenio, and other plays attributed to Shakespeare, did not survive in written form.
Author Andrew Delaplaine wraps the intriguing history of Cardenio and the Globe in this fascinating novel that takes off when a modern-day boy named Charlie jumps through a trap door at the modern iteration of the Globe and goes back in time to the days of the original performance.
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. Here’s the set-up:
It’s Christmas Eve, and the opening night of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” in a student production at the reconstructed Globe Theatre on London’s South Bank, and 16-year-old Charlie has the coveted role of Puck.
When a mysterious man in the back of the theatre causes Charlie to flub a line, he drops through the trap door in the stage, and is taken back to 1594 and the original premiere of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” eight weeks before Christmas Eve.
Charlie becomes a member of the Globe acting company and while trying to get a copy of Shakespeare’s famous lost play, “Cardenio,” he gets caught up in a plot to assassinate Queen Elizabeth I and install Mary, Queen of Scots in her place.
But there’s a deadline: if Charlie doesn’t return home by Christmas Eve, he’ll be stuck in 1594 forever.
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