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.
| ISBN: | 9781472510402 |
| Publication date: | 7th November 2013 |
| Author: | Eustace M Tillyard |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Academic an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 85 pages |
| Series: | Bloomsbury Academic Collections: English Literary Criticism |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: plays and playwrights Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800 Literary studies: general |