Professor Hammond thinks he has discovered a lost Shakespeare play from 1613, Cardenio.
According to Hammond, his rediscovered Cardenio was not so much lost as lurking in plain sight - buried within a popular 18th century play called Double Falsehood or The Distressed Lovers that was written by an abrasive editor of Shakespeare's works named Lewis Theobald.
Cardenio took its highly elaborate story of star-crossed lovers from Cervantes's Don Quixote, which had just been translated into English in 1612.
The play is recorded as having been performed at the royal court, but then it disappears, except for beguiling references among copyrighted titles listed in publishers' catalogues.
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