This is the first collection of criticism on Shakespeare's romances
to register the impact of modern literary theory on interpretations
of these plays. Kiernan Ryan brings together the most important
recent essays on Pericles, Cymbeline, The Winter's Tale and The
Tempest, the greatest of the `last plays', staging a dynamic debate
between feminist, poststructuralist, psychoanalytic and new
historicist views of the masterpieces Shakespeare wrote at the
close of his career. The book aims not only to anthologise accounts
of the last plays by leading Shakespearean critics, including
Stephen Greenblatt, Janet Adelman, Leah Marcus, Howard Felperin and
Steven Mullaney, but also to dramatise what is at stake in the
choice of a particular critical approach. It allows the student to
compare the strengths and limitations of a deconstructive and a
feminist reading of the same romance, or to test the plausibility
of one psychoanalytic angle on the last plays against another. The
headnotes that preface the essays highlight their distinctive
slants on Shakespearean romance, unpack the theoretical assumptions
that steer their interpretations, and throw into relief the key
points at which their authors collide or converge. The editor's
introduction places the essays in the context of twentieth-century
criticism of the last plays and makes a powerful case for a
fundamental reappraisal of Shakespearean romance. The
comprehensive, fully annotated bibliography provides an unrivalled
guide to further reading on all four plays.
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