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Dateline: 18th March, 2010 Double Falsehood Not So False Double Falsehood, a play claimed since 1727 to be by Shakespeare but rejected as a hoax by most, has been authenticated by the Arden Shakespeare as being, in part, a genuine piece of Shakespeare's late work which he wrote with John Fletcher. The original discoverer of the work, Lewis Theobald, claimed that he had three manuscripts of Shakespeare's lost play The History of Cardenio, which is based on a section of Cervantes’s Don Quixote, and he edited them together to produce Double Falsehood, altering them to suit 18th century tastes. However he incurred the wrath of Alexander Pope who thinly disguised him as the King of the Dunces "piddling Tibbald" in early versions of The Dunciad and neither his reputation or the play ever recovered sufficiently to be taken seriously. Now the Arden Shakespeare has accepted it as genuinely part of the Shakespeare canon and the Royal Shakespeare Company is to produce it at the Swan after its reopening. This production, which is being developed by Gregory Doran, uses the Theobald version interspersed with material from Cervantes.
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