Shakespeare's Last Plays
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 85
ISBN-13: 9781472510402
Subjects: Shakespeare, william, 1564-1616, criticism and interpretation
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."--Bloomsbury Publishing.