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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.
Chapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 Shakespeare's The Tempest: Tragicomedy and the Philosophic Hero Chapter 3 The Consolation of Romance: Providence in Shakespeare's Late Plays Chapter 4 Cymbeline in Context: The Regime Issue Chapter 5 Shakespeare against the Skeptics: Nature and Grace in The Winter's Tale Chapter 6 Henry VIII on Trial: Confronting Malice and Conscience in Shakespeare's All is True Chapter 7 Shakespeare's Realism in The Tempest Chapter 8 Pericles and "Mariana": T. S. Eliot's Search for the Transcedent in Late Shakespeare Chapter 9 Tragedy and Comedy in Shakespeare's Poetic Vision in The Winter's Tale Chapter 10 The Displaced Nativity in Cymbeline Chapter 11 Prospero's Second Sailing: Machiavelli, Shakespeare, and the Politics of The Tempest Chapter 12 The Soul of the Sojourner: Pericles, Prince of Tyre Chapter 13 "Fresh Piece of Excellent Witchcraft": Contemporary Theory and Shakespeare's Romances
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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, ...