Overview
What were Shakespeare's last thoughts on history, tragedy and comedy? This book focuses attention on Shakespeare's ""Late Romances"". The work - a collection of commissioned essays by scholars of classical political philosophy and literature - offers 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, fulfils or transforms previously held conceptions of the playwright and his political-philosophical views.
Full Product Details
Author: Travis Curtright ,
Stephen W. Smith ,
Leo Paul S. De Alvarez ,
John E. Alvis
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint: Lexington Books
Dimensions:
Width: 15.80cm
, Height: 2.30cm
, Length: 23.20cm
Weight: 0.481kg
ISBN: 9780739103616
ISBN 10: 073910361
Pages: 260
Publication Date: 03 June 2002
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Out of Print
Availability: Awaiting stock
Reviews
This volume contains essays by some of the world's leading students of Shakespearean politics on his last 'problem' plays. It is a must read for anyone who wishes to partake of Shakespeare's political wisdom--or simply to understand the plays themselves!--Catherine Zuckert
This collection will be really helpful to those who have grappled in capitvated puzzlement with Shakespeare's late plays. The Catholic sensibility; the philospher's heroism of his stand-in, Prospero; the reconciliation of tragic and comic outcomes; the restorative power of art; the deformation of the plays in postmodern theory-these themes are just a sample of the scope and variety of these esays. -- Eva Brann, St. John's College This volume contains essays by some of the world's leading students of Shakespearean politics on his last 'problem' plays. It is a must read for anyone who wishes to partake of Shakespeare's political wisdom-or simply to understand the plays themselves! -- Catherine Zuckert, University of Notre Dame
This collection will be really helpful to those who have grappled in capitvated puzzlement with Shakespeare's late plays. The Catholic sensibility; the philospher's heroism of his stand-in, Prospero; the reconciliation of tragic and comic outcomes; the restorative power of art; the deformation of the plays in postmodern theory these themes are just a sample of the scope and variety of these esays.--Eva Brann
Author Information
Stephen W. Smith is Associate Professor of English at Hillsdale College. Travis Curtright is Assistant Director of the Center for Thomas More Studies at the University of Dallas.
