William Shakespeare - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Mon, 28 Sep 2020 05:21:42 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg William Shakespeare - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 First Shakespeare in Spain? Bard's last play found at seminary https://cathnews.co.nz/2020/09/28/shakespeare-spain-seminary/ Mon, 28 Sep 2020 06:51:37 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=131057 It was hidden away for centuries in the archives of a seminary in Spain, a rare edition of a Shakespeare play experts believe may be the earliest copy of his work to reach the country. Published in 1634, "The Two Noble Kinsmen" is a tragicomedy about love, enmity and madness written by Shakespeare in collaboration Read more

First Shakespeare in Spain? Bard's last play found at seminary... Read more]]> It was hidden away for centuries in the archives of a seminary in Spain, a rare edition of a Shakespeare play experts believe may be the earliest copy of his work to reach the country.

Published in 1634, "The Two Noble Kinsmen" is a tragicomedy about love, enmity and madness written by Shakespeare in collaboration with Jacobean playwright John Fletcher.

"It's likely the play reached Spain between 1635 and 1640," said John Stone, a lecturer in English studies at Barcelona University who discovered it at the Royal Scots College, a seminary in the northwestern town of Salamanca founded after the Catholic Church was outlawed in Scotland. Read more

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