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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.
Contents
Introduction; A.Thorne.- Shakespearean Comedy and RomanceImagination; 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.
