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You’ve waited over 400 years—now be among the first to witness history in the making! Resurgens Theatre Company is proud to present the North American professional premiere of Shakespeare’s lost play, The History of Cardenio. Based on Cervantes’ Don Quixote, this collaborative tragicomedy (co-written with John Fletcher) crowned the Bard’s illustrious career, but disappeared after a devastating fire reportedly destroyed the original manuscript in 1808. Undaunted, Dr. Gary Taylor has spent several decades carefully reconstructing the play by employing state-of-the-art database analysis, and has agreed to share his work with Resurgens. Experience the wonders of his well-wrought labors Thursday, Sept. 24 and Saturday, Sept. 26 at 8:00 p.m., and Sunday, Sept. 27 at 2:00 and 6:00 p.m. (And join us for a special encore performance of Mucedorus on Friday, Sept. 25 at 8:00 p.m.)

All performances will be at our new venue, the historic Pythagoras Masonic Temple (108 E. Ponce de Leon Ave.) in Decatur.

Tickets are only $20, and are available online below

or at the Box Office prior to the show.

Purchase Tickets—The History of Cardenio

And now available from Georgia State University—Studies in the Literary Imagination 54.1 & 2, Death and Domesticity: Reassessing Domestic Dramas of the Renaissance. Published this past year, Resurgens’ long-awaited special issue features contributions from and surrounding our Death and Domesticity Conference, including essays by Emma K. Atwood, Ariane M. Balizet, Cheryl Birdseye, Ann Christensen, Brent Griffin, Molly Hand, Joseph L. Kelly, and Barbara Sebek. Order yours today at https://english.gsu.edu/sli/subscribe-to-sli/.

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COMING SOON

Volpone Trailer 2025

SHAKESPEARE’S APOCRYPHA NOW 2026

FEATURING

The Spanish Tragedy

Sir Thomas More

Mucedorus

Cardenio

Arden of Faversham

with a special encore performance of Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus