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

• 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
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (272 p.)

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 upon key topics in current Shakespearean studies, such as kinship relations, manliness, magic, medico-politics, nationalism, rhetoric, schism, sexuality and staging conventions. The plays are explored both individually and within generic, thematic and chronological groups. Each author combines new research with their experience of teaching the plays, offering innovative approaches to some well-known works, as well as encouraging readers to explore less familiar dramas such as Pericles, Cymbeline, All is True and The Two Noble Kinsmen. The volume is unusual in its coverage of the lost 'late' play Cardenio, and considers its significance for our conception of the 'lateness' of these plays. This book will fill a large gap in the market for a broad-ranging critical introduction to this important and increasingly popular area in Shakespeare's work, and is suitable as a textbook for undergraduate, graduate and more general readers.

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