Shakespeare's last plays

Author(s)

• Tillyard, E. M. W. (Eustace Mandeville Wetenhall)

Bibliographic Information

Shakespeare's last plays

E. M. W. Tillyard

（Bloomsbury academic collections, . English literary criticism ; pre-1700）

Bloomsbury, 2013

• : hardback

Note

Originally published: London : Athlone Press, 1990

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Shakespeare's Last Plays was the first of E. M. W. Tilyard's influential works on Shakespeare. In it, Dr Tilyard argues that the last plays - Cymbeline, The Winter's Tale and The Tempest - develop patterns found in the earlier works. He shows how Shakespeare intertwines reconciliation (the final phase of the tragedies) with an awareness of possible worlds (where the 'natural' and supernatural have equal status), and concludes that The Tempest, by subordinating his tragic pattern, is his greatest achievement.

Table of Contents

I. Introductory II. The Tragic Pattern Introductory Cymbeline The Winter's Tale The Tempest III. Planes of Reality Introductory Cymbeline The Winter's Tale The Tempest IV. The Relation of the Two Themes V. Epilogue

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Details

• NCID: BB15630932
• ISBN:
  • 9781472510402
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: London
• Pages/Volumes: 85 p.
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PR2976
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Tragicomedies
  • LCSH : Tragicomedy
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BB11561849