Shakespeare's Last Plays: Essays in Literature and PoliticsWhat 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. |
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| Title | Shakespeare's Last Plays: Essays in Literature and Politics G - Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Series |
| Editors | Stephen W. Smith, Travis Curtright |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Lexington Books, 2002 |
| ISBN | 073910361X, 9780739103616 |
| Length | 244 pages |
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