Shakespeare's Late Plays: New Readings

by Jennifer Richards and James Knowles

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0748611533
• ISBN13: 9780748611539
• Release Date: July 1999
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher