This guide provides a critical survey of the major debates and issues surrounding the late plays, from the earliest published accounts to the present day. Nicholas Potter offers a clear guiding narrative and an exploration of literary history, focusing on how criticism of the works has developed over the years.

Covers all four of the late plays (The Tempest and The Winter's Tale in particular are widely studied on Shakespeare courses)
Surveys the major critical debates and issues, from the earliest published accounts to the present day
Offers a clear guiding narrative with generous selections from key works of criticism

Autorentext
Nicholas Potter is the Head of School of Humanities and Performing Arts and lectures in English at Swansea Institute, UK.

Inhalt

Introduction.- The Late Plays: Critical Opinion in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries.- Pericles.- Cymbeline (1).- Cymbeline (2).- The Winter's Tale: Early Moderns.- The Winter's Tale: Later Moderns.- The Winter's Tale: Post-Moderns.- The Tempest: Moderns.- The Tempest: Play and Politics.- Conclusion: Future Directions.- Notes.- Select Bibliography.- Index.