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Longman Critical Readers
General Editor: Stan Smith
Research Professor in English, Nottingham Trent University
This important series takes full account of contemporary literary theory, providing collections of key modern readings of major authors, genres and critical approaches. Prefaced by a wide-ranging editorial introduction setting the readings in context and exploring the issues they raise, individual volumes in the series offer the student authoritative and stimulating guides to the best theoretically-informed critical work on subjects from the Middle Ages to the present.
This is the first collection of criticism on Shakespeare's romances to register the impact of modern literary theory on interpretations of these plays. Kiernan Ryan brings together the most important recent essays on Pericles, Cymbeline, The Winter's Tale and The Tempest, the greatest of the last plays, staging a dynamic debate between feminist, poststructuralist, psychoanalytic and new historicist views of the masterpieces Shakespeare wrote at the close of his career.
The book aims not only to anthologise accounts of the last plays by leading Shakespearean critics, including Stephen Greenblatt, Janet Adelman, Leah Marcus, Howard Felperin and Steven Mullaney, but also to dramatise what is at stake in the choice of a particular critical approach. It allows the student to compare the strengths and limitations of a deconstructive and a feminist reading of the same romance, or to test the plausibility of one psychoanalytic angle on the last plays against another. The headnotes that preface the essays highlight their distinctive slants on Shakespearean romance, unpack the theoretical assumptions that steer their interpretations, and throw into relief the key points at which their authors collide or converge.
The editor's introduction places the essays in the context of twentieth-century criticism of the last plays and makes a powerful case for a fundamental reappraisal of Shakespearean romance. The comprehensive, fully annotated bibliography provides an unrivalled guide to further reading on all four plays.
Both students and teachers of Shakespeare's romances will find Shakespeare: The Last Plays indispensable.
Kiernan Ryan is Professor of English Language and Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London and a Fellow of New Hall, Cambridge. He is the author of Shakespeare (1989, 2nd edn 1995) and the editor of King Lear: Contemporary Critical Essays (1993) and New Historicism and Cultural Materialism: A Reader (1996).
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- Title Shakespeare: The Last Plays
- Author Kiernan Ryan
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 312
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Routledge, Harlow
- Date 1999-01-18
- Features Annotated, Bibliography
- ISBN 9780582275737 / 0582275733
- Weight 0.74 lbs (0.34 kg)
- Dimensions 8.48 x 5.51 x 0.62 in (21.54 x 14.00 x 1.57 cm)
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- Cultural Region: British
- Library of Congress subjects English drama (Tragicomedy) - History and, Shakespeare, William - Tragicomedies
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 98030637
- Dewey Decimal Code 822.33
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