<p>Set in the heat and dust of Andalusia in seventeenth-century Spain, Cardenio is the story of a friendship betrayed, with all the elements of a thriller: disguise, dishonour and deceit.<br>A woman is seduced, a bride is forced to the altar, and a man runs mad among the mountains of the Sierra Morena.<br>The history of the play is every bit as thrilling, and this text is the result of a masterful act of literary archaeology by the Royal Shakespe...