Shakespeare's Romances
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Beschreibung
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.
This New Casebook offers a collection of the liveliest and most innovative contemporary criticism on Shakespeare's 'Romances': Pericles, Cymbeline, The Winter's Tale and The Tempest. The essays gathered in this volume exemplify the current diversity in critical practice and cover a broad range of topics, including gender, religious politics, nationalism, topography, colonialism and 'medico-moral' discourse. Alison Thorne's detailed introduction locates the 'Romances' in their generic, critical and historical contexts.
Brings together a wide range of the most recent and theoretically informed critical essays on Shakespeare's Romances
A helpful introduction locates the Romances in their historical, cultural and generic contexts
Provides an uptodate bibliography of recent as well as more traditional critical approaches to this group of plays
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Alison Thorne
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