| Reviews |
| - 'moves elegantly through thematic chapters...Lyne has a gift for close reading that he combines with shrewd attention to textual variants.' - Bart Van Es, Times Literary Supplement
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| Description | | - Explores whole range of work written at end of Shakespeare's career
- Consider's Shakespeare's achievement alongside and interacting with those of his contemporaries
- Identifies ways in which there is a distinct character in the 'late work'
- Places Shakespeare in the context of the history and philosophy of irony
| | 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
. Unlike many previous studies it considers all the late work, including Henry VIII
, The Two Noble Kinsmen
, the revised Folio version of King Lear
, and even what can be ascertained about the lost
Cardenio
. From this broadened canon emerge signs of a distinct identity for the late work. Lyne explores how Shakespeare sets great store in grand principles - faith in God, love of family, reverence for monarchs, and belief in theatrical representations of truth. However, there is also a ubiquitous and structuring irony whereby such principles are questioned and doubted. Audiences and readers
are left with a difficult but empowering decision whether to believe, or to question, or to accommodate both faith and scepticism. Alongside this interest in the new and characteristically 'late' qualities of this phase in Shakespeare's career, Shakespeare's Late Work
puts it in a wider cultural context. A chapter on the collaborations and broader dramatic relationships with John Fletcher and
Thomas Middleton illuminates how Shakespeare's canon interacts with other writing of its time. A chapter on how the late work revisits and reconsiders themes from earlier plays shows that continuity needs to be remembered alongside novelty. Overall this is an introduction to the key works of this period which advances a new reading of them. They emerge as fascinating and dazzling explorations of
their potential and their limitations.
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Readership: Scholars, teachers, and students of Shakespeare, including advanced A-level, undergraduate, and postgraduate English Literature students.
| Contents |
1.
The Late Shakespearian Canon
2.
Seeing is Believing
3.
Faith and Revelation
4.
Family Romances
5.
Conservative Endings
6.
Shakespeare, Middleton, and Fletcher
7.
Shakespeare, Early and Late
Further Reading
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| Authors, editors,
and contributors |
Raphael Lyne, Fellow, New Hall, Cambridge University
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