Shakespeare and the idea of late writing : authorship in the proximity of death / 1st pbk. ed.

Table Of Contents:
Acknowledgements ix
Introduction 1(23)

1 Shakespeare and the idea of late writing: authorship in the proximity of death 24(41)

1.1 La derniere periode 24(8)

1.2 Late style in the wake of war: Neumann, Broch, Adorno 32(10)

1.3 The Shapes of lateness 42(8)

1.4 Late Shakespeare 50(10)

1.5 Shakespeare and the idea of late writing 60(5)

2 The Shakespearean caesura: genre, chronology, style 65(62)

2.1 A question of genre 66(12)

2.2 A question of chronology 78(26)

2.3 A question of style 104(23)

3 The invention of late Shakespeare: subjectivism and its discontents 127(63)

3.1 `Dramatick perfection': Malone and the establishment of a chronology 128(8)

3.2 Inventing late Shakespeare from Coleridge to Dowden 136(24)

3.3 The backlash: (post)subjectivism from Strachey to Bond 160(8)

3.4 `A certain mastery': Henry James and the elusive late Shakespeare 168(22)

4 Last words/late plays: the possibility and impossibility of late Shakespeare in early modern culture and theatre 190(69)

4.1 Premodern endings 193(9)

4.2 The Shakespearean Swan song 202(13)

4.3 Last words 215(10)

4.4 Late style and the conditions of theatrical production in early modern London 225(34)

5 How old is `late'? Late Shakespeare, old age, King Lear 259(59)

5.1 Old-age style 260(11)

5.2 Old-age style without old age 271(13)

5.3 Shakespeare's middle years 284(10)

5.4 `I have a journey, sir, shortly to go': King Lear as a late play 294(20)

5.5 Kings and desperate men 314(4)

6 The Tempest and the uses of late Shakespeare in the theater: Gielgud, Rylance, Prospero 318(36)

6.1 Theatre of complicity 320(7)

6.2 Lateness and the mid-life crisis 327(4)

6.3 Performing late selfhood: Gielgud, Prospero, Shakespeare 331(6)

6.4 Authorship and authenticity: Rylance, Prospero, Shakespeare 337(13)

6.5 Postscript: late style in Australia: Bell, Prospero, Shakespeare 350(4)
Notes 354(40)
Index 394