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The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 10.0942  Friday, 4 June 1999.

From:           Douglas McNaughton <Douglas.McNaughton@eup.ed.ac.uk>
Date:           Thursday, 3 Jun 1999 16:25:48 +0100
Subject:        Ad for Shakespeare's Late Plays

Take A Fresh Look At  Shakespeare's Late Plays - including Cardenio -
With This New Book

Shakespeare's Late Plays
New Readings

Jennifer Richards and James Knowles

June 1999   256 pp
Hardback   0 7486 1152 5   £45.00   /   Paperback   0 7486 1153 3
£16.95

This new collection reflects a resurgence of interest in Shakespeare's
plays performed between 1608 and 1613.  It offers a broad range of new,
historicist approaches, touching upon key topics in current
Shakespearean studies, such as kinship relations, manliness, magic,
medico-politics, nationalism, rhetoric, schism, sexuality and staging
conventions.  The plays are explored both individually and within
generic, thematic and chronological groups.  Each author combines new
research with their experience of teaching the plays, offering
innovative approaches to some well-known works, as well as encouraging
readers to explore less familiar dramas such as Pericles, Cymbeline, All
is True and The Two Noble Kinsmen.  The volume is unusual in its
coverage of the lost 'late' play Cardenio, and considers its
significance for our conception of the 'lateness' of these plays.

Ordering information below.

Contents

Acknowledgements
Texts and Editions
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Part I - Maternity and Manliness
1.      Gracious be the issue: maternity and narrative in Shakespeare's
late plays Helen Hackett
2.      Thou has made me now a man: reforming man(ner)liness in Henry
VIII (Gordon McMullan)
3.      Near akin: the trials of friendship in The Two Noble Kinsmen
(Alan Stewart)
Part II - Art, Aesthetics and Society
4.      Social decorum in The Winter's Tale  (Jennifer Richards)
5.      Pericles and the Pox (Margaret Healy)
6.      Insubstantial pageants: The Tempest and masquing culture  (James
Knowles)
7.      An art lawful as eating? Magic in The Tempest and The Winter's
Tale (Gareth Roberts)
Part III - History and Interpretation
8.      Postcolonial Shakespeare: British identity formation and
Cymbeline (Willy Maley)
9.      History and judgement in Henry VIII  (Thomas Healy)
10.     To write and read/Be henceforth treacherous: Cymbeline and the
problem of interpretation  (Alison Thorne)
Part IV - Endings and Beginnings
11.     Unseasonable laughter: the context of Cardenio  (Richard Wilson)
12.     Tears at the wedding: Shakespeare's last phase (Julia Briggs)
Bibliography

Desk Copies Available:
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