Shakespeare's late work / Raphael Lyne.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lyne, Raphael.

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Oxford Shakespeare topics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Shakespeare, William.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

173 pages ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.

Summary:

Shakespeare's Late Work is a detailed reading of the plays written at the end of Shakespeare's career, centring on Pericles, Cymbeline, The Winter's Tale, and The Tempest. Lyne explores how Shakespeare sets great store in grand principles-faith in God, love of family, and reverence for monarchs. However, there is also a ubiquitous and structuring irony whereby such principles are questioned and doubted. A chapter on the collaborations and broader dramatic relationships with John Fletcher and Thomas Middleton also illuminates how Shakespeare's work interacts with other writing of its time.

Contents:

1 The Late Shakespearian Canon 1

2 Seeing is Believing 30

3 Faith and Revelation 55

4 Family Romances 81

5 Conservative Endings 99

6 Shakespeare, Middleton, and Fletcher 116

7 Shakespeare, Early and Late 138.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

0199265941

9780199265947

019926595X

9780199265954

OCLC:

70671528