Table Of Contents:

List of Illustrations vii
Acknowledgements viii
Texts and Editions ix
Notes on Contributors x
Introduction: Shakespeare's late plays 1(24)

Jennifer Richards

James Knowles
PART I MATERNITY AND MANLINESS

`Gracious be the issue': maternity and narrative in Shakespeare's late plays 25(15)

Helen Hackett

`Thou hast made me now a man': reforming man(ner)liness in Henry VIII 40(17)

Gordon McMullan

`Near akin': the trials of friendship in The Two Noble Kinsmen 57(18)

Alan Stewart
PART II ART, AESTHETICS AND SOCIETY

Social decorum in The Winter's Tale 75(17)

Jennifer Richards

Pericles and the Pox 92(16)

Margaret Healy

Insubstantial pageants: The Tempest and masquing culture 108(18)

James Knowles

`An art lawful as eating'? Magic in The Tempest and The Winter's Tale 126(19)

Gareth Roberts
PART III HISTORY AND INTERPRETATION

Postcolonial Shakespeare: British identity formation and Cymbeline 145(13)

Willy Maley

History and judgement in Henry VIII 158(18)

Thomas Healy

`To write and read / Be henceforth treacherous': Cymbeline and the problem of interpretation 176(17)

Alison Thorne
PART IV ENDINGS AND BEGINNINGS

Unseasonable laughter: the context of Cardenio 193(17)

Richard Wilson

Tears at the wedding: Shakespeare's last phase 210(18)

Julia Briggs
Bibliography 228(19)
Index 247