Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Introduction
- 1 What is a ‘late play’?
- 2 Blackfriars, music and masque: theatrical contexts of the last plays
- 3 The literary and dramatic contexts of the last plays
- 4 Politics, religion, geography and travel: historical contexts of the last plays
- 5 ‘You speak a language that I understand not’: listening to the last plays
- 6 The Winter’s Tale: shifts in staging and status
- 7 Cymbeline: the afterlife
- 8 Literary invocations of The Tempest
- 9 Pericles: the afterlife
- 10 The Two Noble Kinsmen and King Henry VIII: the last last plays
- Further reading: Clare Smout
- Index
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 May 2010
- Frontmatter
- Introduction
- 1 What is a ‘late play’?
- 2 Blackfriars, music and masque: theatrical contexts of the last plays
- 3 The literary and dramatic contexts of the last plays
- 4 Politics, religion, geography and travel: historical contexts of the last plays
- 5 ‘You speak a language that I understand not’: listening to the last plays
- 6 The Winter’s Tale: shifts in staging and status
- 7 Cymbeline: the afterlife
- 8 Literary invocations of The Tempest
- 9 Pericles: the afterlife
- 10 The Two Noble Kinsmen and King Henry VIII: the last last plays
- Further reading: Clare Smout
- Index
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- The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare's Last Plays , pp. i - xviiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009