Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Shakespeare's late plays / Jennifer Richards and James Knowles
  • pt. 1. Maternity and manliness: 'Gracious be the issue' : maternity and narrative in Shakespeare's late plays / Helen Hackett
  • 'Thou hast made me now a man' : reforming man(ner)liness in Henry VIII / Gordon McMullan
  • 'Near akin' : the trials of friendship in The two noble kinsmen / Alan Stewart
  • pt. 2. Art, aesthetics and society: Social decorum in The winter's tale / Jennifer Richards
  • Pericles and the pox / Margaret Healy
  • Insubstantial pageants : The tempest and masquing culture / James Knowles
  • 'An art lawful as eating'? : magic in The tempest and The winter's tale / Gareth Roberts
  • pt. 3. History and interpretation: Postcolonial Shakespeare : British identity formation and Cymbeline / Willy Maley
  • History and judgement in Henry VIII / Thomas Healy
  • 'To write and read/Be henceforth treacherous' : Cymbeline and the problem of interpretation / Alison Thorne
  • pt. 4. Endings and beginnings: Unseasonable laughter : the context of Cardenio / Richard Wilson
  • Tears at the wedding : Shakespeare's last phase / Julia Briggs.