Shakespeare's last plays : essays in literature and politics / edited by Stephen W. Smith and Travis Curtright.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Smith, Stephen W., 1950-

Curtright, Travis.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Criticism and interpretation.

Shakespeare, William.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

Criticism and interpretation.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Political and social views.

Political and social views.

Physical Description:

xii, 244 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : Lexington, [2002]

Summary:

What were Shakespeare's final thoughts on history, tragedy, and comedy? Shakespeare's Last Plays focuses much needed scholarly attention on Shakespeare's "Late Romances." The work--a collection of newly commissioned essays by leading scholars of classical political philosophy and literature--offers careful textual analysis of Pericles, Prince of Tyre, Cymbeline, The Winter's Tale, The Tempest, All is True, and The Two Noble Kinsmen. The essays reveal how Shakespeare's thought in these final works compliments, challenges, fulfills, or transforms previously held conceptions of the playwright and his political-philosophical views.

Contents:

Shakespeare's The tempest: tragicomedy and the philosophic hero / Paul A. Cantor

The consolation of romance: providence in Shakespeare's late plays / Richard Harp

Cymbeline in context: the regime issues / John E. Alvis

Shakespeare against the skeptics: nature and grace in The winter's tale / David N. Beauregard

Henry VIII on trial: confronting malice and conscience in Shakespeare's All is true / Gerard B. Wegemer

Shakespeare's realism in The tempest / Peter Augustine Lawler

Pericles and "Marina": T.S. Eliot's search for the transcendent in late Shakespeare / John Freeh

Tragedy and comedy in Shakespeare's poetic vision in The winter's tale / Mary P. Nichols

The displaced nativity in Cymbeline / Glenn C. Arbery

Prospero's second sailing: Machiavelli, Shakespeare, and the politics of The tempest / Nathan Schlueter

The soul of the sojourner: Pericles, Prince of Tyre / Leo Paul S. de Alvarez

"Fresh piece of excellent witchcraft": contemporary theory and Shakespeare's romances / R.V. Young.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

073910361X

OCLC:

49594675