Shakespeare's Romances

Häftad, Engelska, 2002

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New Casebook offers a selection of the most lively and innovative contemporary criticism on the four late plays commonly known as Shakespeare's 'Romances': Pericles, Cymbeline, The Winter's Tale and The Tempest. New historicist, Marxist, feminist and psychoanalytic perspectives are all represented, alongside other readings that engage with less familiar issues such as nationalism, topography, religious politics and medico-moral discourse. Alison Thorne's introduction explores the much discussed question of how these plays should be classified generically, and traces the recurrence of certain preconceptions and critical stances in the reception of the Romances from the seventeenth century onwards.

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Utgivningsdatum2002-11-12
Mått138 x 214 x 16 mm
Vikt340 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieNew Casebooks
Antal sidor255
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9780333679753

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Introduction; A.ThorneShakespearean Comedy and Romance: The Utopian Imagination; K.RyanPericles and the Pox; M.HealyLiminal Geography: Pericles and the Politics of Place; C.C.RelihanCymbeline and the Rescue of the King; R.NevoThe Masculine Romance of Roman Britain: Cymbeline and Early Modern English Nationalism; J.MikalachkiMasculine Authority and the Maternal Body in The Winter's Tale; J.AdelmanThe Winter's Tale and the Religious Politics of Europe; J.EllisonCaliban versus Miranda: Race and Gender Conflicts in Postcolonial Rewritings of The Tempest; J.G.Singh'The Duke of Milan/And His Brave Son': Old Histories and New in The Tempest; D.S.KastanFurther ReadingNotes on ContributorsIndex.

'This volume brings together some of the best work of recent years on the so-called romances. Its editor, who is herself the author of a ground-breaking study of perspective in Shakespeare, prefaces the collection with a shrewd essay on the complexities of romance as a genre. Her essay and its survey of the critical field afford one of the most perceptive introductions to the topic so far. Like the best of her contributors, Thorne strikes a fine balance between theory and more traditional approaches to the field. An excellent collection and well worth owning.' - Professor R Weis, University College, University of London