Author(s): Andrew J. Power (Editor), Rory Loughnane
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication Date: 8 Nov. 2012
Edition: New
Language: English
Print length: 358 pages
ISBN-10: 1107016193
ISBN-13: 9781107016194
Book Description
In fourteen specially commissioned chapters by leading Shakespeare scholars from around the globe, Late Shakespeare, 1608–1613 provides an essential reappraisal of the final phase of Shakespeare’s writing life. Arranged for the first time in the best-established chronological sequence, Shakespeare’s last seven extant plays are discussed in detail in dedicated chapters, from Pericles to the other late co-authored works, King Henry VIII and The Two Noble Kinsmen. The plays are situated in the context of Shakespeare’s financial investments, his focus on the practice of reading, the changing nature of his acting company and the pressing issues of contemporary politics and urban life. The book also goes on to explore the relationship between Shakespeare and his audience and considers the dominant themes in his final works. Analysing and responding to the latest criticism in the field, this volume brings to light a vital re-examination of what it means to discuss ‘late Shakespeare’.
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In Late Shakespeare, 1608–1613, leading international Shakespeare scholars provide a contextually informed approach to Shakespeare’s last seven plays.
About the Author
Andrew J. Power is a Visiting Lecturer in Shakespeare and Early Modern Literature at the University of Cyprus. His forthcoming book is entitled Stages of Madness: Sin, Sickness, and Seneca in Shakespeare. He is also working on another monograph study about the classical dramatic sources of Shakespeare’s early tragedies, entitled Love, Tyranny and Revenge: Shakespeare, Elizabeth I and the Senecan Tradition. Amongst other chapter and article contributions to a range of journals and collections, he is a contributing author to the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean Tragedy. In 2014 he will co-edit the MHRA Yearbook of English Studies on Caroline literature with Rory Loughnane and Peter Sillitoe.
Rory Loughnane is Associate Editor of the New Oxford Shakespeare at Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis. He has previously worked at Trinity College Dublin, where he held an IRCHSS Postdoctoral Fellowship, and Syracuse University, where he was a Visiting Assistant Professor of Early Modern Literature. In addition to Late Shakespeare, 1608–1613, he is editor of Celtic Shakespeare: The Bard and the Borderers (2013, with Willy Maley), Staged Transgression in Shakespeare’s England (2013, with Edel Semple) and The Yearbook of English Studies for 2014, dedicated to Caroline Literature (with Andrew Power and Peter Sillitoe).
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