Shakespeare's Romances

ISBN-13: 9780333679753 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 255 str.

Alison Thorne

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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.

O autorze

ALISON THORNE teaches in the Department of English Studies at the University of Strathclyde.

Blurb

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.