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.