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Shakespeare's last plays : essays in literature and politics

Travis Curtright (Editor), Stephen W. Smith (Editor)
Print Book, English, ©2002
Lexington, Lanham, Md., ©2002
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xii, 244 p. ; 24 cm
9780739103616, 073910361X
186193194
Acknowledgmentsix
Prefacexi
Stephen W. Smith
Travis Curtright
Shakespeare's The Tempest: Tragicomedy and the Philosophic Hero
1(16)
Paul A. Cantor
The Consolation of Romance: Providence in Shakespeare's Late Plays
17(18)
Richard Harp
Cymbeline in Context: The Regime Issue
35(18)
John E. Alvis
Shakespeare against the Skeptics: Nature and Grace in The Winter's Tale
53(20)
David N. Beauregard
Henry VIII on Trial: Confronting Malice and Conscience in Shakespeare's All Is True
73(18)
Gerard B. Wegemer
Shakespeare's Realism in The Tempest
91(20)
Peter Augustine Lawler
Pericles and ``Marina'': T. S. Eliot's Search for the Transcendent in Late Shakespeare
111(26)
John Freeh
Tragedy and Comedy in Shakespeare's Poetic Vision in The Winter's Tale
137(20)
Mary P. Nichols
The Displaced Nativity in Cymbeline
157(22)
Glenn C. Arbery
Prospero's Second Sailing: Machiavelli, Shakespeare, and the Politics of The Tempest
179(18)
Nathan Schlueter
The Soul of the Sojourner: Pericles, Prince of Tyre
197(20)
Leo Paul S. de Alvarez
``Fresh Piece of Excellent Witchcraft'': Contemporary Theory and Shakespeare's Romances
217(22)
R. V. Young
Index239(4)
Contributors243