Revisiting Shakespeare's Lost Play; Acknowledgments; Contents; Abbreviations; 1 Introduction; 2 Believers Versus Skeptics: An Assessment of the Cardenio/Double Falsehood Problem; The Ur-Source Play: Cardenio (1613); The Alleged Source Play: The "Downes" Manuscript and Others (1660s?); Theobald's Double Falsehood (1727-1728); Recent Appeals to Computer Stylistics and a Verdict; 3 The Jolt of Jacobean Tragicomedy: Double Falsehood on the Eighteenth-Century English Stage; Henriquez Stinks: Evidence for the Rape; The Rapist Turned Protagonist: Double Falsehood as Tragicomedy.

The Epilogue as Defamiliarizing Strategy4 Ghostwriting: Lewis Theobald's Double Falsehood as Adaptation; Double Falsehood in Context; Adaptation and Convention; The Conundrum of Rape; 5 Textual Skirmishes and Theatrical Frays: Double Falsehood versus the Scriblerians; Theobald and the Dramatic Canon; Dramatic Principles in The Censor; Theobald and the Scriblerian Suspicion of the Stage; Double Falsehood as Rebuttal; Selected Bibliography; Index.