Lyne Raphael (Fellow Of New Hall University Of Cambridge)
Lyne Raphael (Fellow Of New Hall University Of Cambridge) - Shakespeare's Late Work - Paperback
Lyne Raphael (Fellow Of New Hall University Of Cambridge) - Shakespeare's Late Work - Paperback
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Description: 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.
Title: Shakespeare's Late Work
Author(s): Lyne Raphael (Fellow Of New Hall University Of Cambridge)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Barcode: 9780199265954
Pages: 184 Pages
Publication Date: 5/3/2007
Series: Oxford Shakespeare Topics
Category: Shakespeare Studies & Criticism
Description: 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.
Title: Shakespeare's Late Work
Author(s): Lyne Raphael (Fellow Of New Hall University Of Cambridge)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Barcode: 9780199265954
Pages: 184 Pages
Publication Date: 5/3/2007
Series: Oxford Shakespeare Topics
Category: Shakespeare Studies & Criticism
