Shakespeare's Late Plays : : New Readings /

Shakespeare's Late Plays : : New Readings / / Jennifer Richards, James Knowles.

This new collection reflects a resurgence of interest in Shakespeare's plays performed between 1608 and 1613: Pericles, Cymbeline, The Winter's Tale, The Tempest, All is True (Henry VIII), The Two Noble Kinsmen, and Cardenio. It offers a broad range of new, historicist approaches, touching...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
VerfasserIn:
Richards, Jennifer,
Knowles, James,
MitwirkendeR:
Briggs, Julia,
Hackett, Helen,
Healy, Margaret,
Healy, Thomas,
Knowles, James,
Maley, Willy,
McMullan, Gordon,
Richards, Jennifer,
Roberts, Gareth,
Stewart, Alan,
Thorne, Alison,
Wilson, Richard,
Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
©1999
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (272 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgements
  • Texts and Editions
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Introduction: Shakespeare’s late plays
  • PART I. MATERNITY AND MANLINESS
  • 1 ‘Gracious be the issue’: maternity and narrative in Shakespeare’s late plays
  • 2 ‘Thou hast made me now a man’: reforming man(ner)liness in Henry VIII
  • 3 ‘Near akin’: the trials of friendship in The Two Noble Kinsmen
  • PART II. ART, AESTHETICS AND SOCIETY
  • 4 Social decorum in The Winter's Tale
  • 5 Pericles and the Pox
  • 6 Insubstantial pageants: The Tempest and masquing culture
  • 7 ‘An art lawful as eating’? Magic in The Tempest and The Winter's Tale
  • PART III HISTORY AND INTERPRETATION
  • 8 Postcolonial Shakespeare: British identity formation and Cymbeline
  • 9 History and judgement in Henry VIII
  • 10 ‘To write and read / Be henceforth treacherous’: Cymbeline and the problem of interpretation
  • PART IV ENDINGS AND BEGINNINGS
  • 11 Unseasonable laughter: the context of Cardenio
  • 12 Tears at the wedding: Shakespeare’s last phase
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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