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...
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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
Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-249) and index
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; General Editors' Preface; Introduction; 1 Shakespearean Comedy and Romance: the Utopian Imagination; 2 Pericles and the Pox; 3 Liminal Geography: Pericles and the Politics of Place; 4 Cymbeline: the Rescue of the King; 5 The Masculine Romance of Roman Britain: Cymbeline and Early Modern English Nationalism; 6 Masculine Authority and the Maternal Body in The Winter's Tale; 7 The Winter's Tale and the Religious Politics of Europe; 8 Caliban versus Miranda: Race and Gender Conflicts in Postcolonial Rewritings of The Tempest
9 'The Duke of Milan / And his Brave Son': Old Histories and New in The TempestFurther Reading; Notes on Contributors; Index
