Shakespeare's Romances

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.>

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; A.Thorne
Shakespearean Comedy and Romance: The Utopian Imagination; K.Ryan
Pericles and the Pox; M.Healy
Liminal Geography: Pericles and the Politics of Place; C.C.Relihan
Cymbeline and the Rescue of the King; R.Nevo
The Masculine Romance of Roman Britain: Cymbeline and Early Modern English Nationalism; J.Mikalachki
Masculine Authority and the Maternal Body in The Winter's Tale; J.Adelman
The Winter's Tale and the Religious Politics of Europe; J.Ellison
Caliban 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.Kastan
Further Reading
Notes on Contributors
Index.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Alison Thorne

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Alison Thorne
• Mitarbeit: Alison Thorne (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Macmillan
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 12.11.2002
• EAN: 9780333679753
• ISBN: 978-0-333-67975-3
• Seiten: 255
• Serien: New Casebooks; New Casebooks (Paperback); New Casebooks; New Casebooks (Paperback)
• Themen: Belletristik > Lyrik, Dramatik; Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft; B, Poetry, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Poetry and Poetics, Europe;Great Britain;novel;William Shakespeare