McDonald, Russ. 2006. Shakespeare's Late Style. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521820684 [Book]

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When Shakespeare gave up tragedy around 1607 and turned to the new form we call romance or tragicomedy, he created a distinctive poetic idiom that often bewildered audiences and readers. The plays of this period, Pericles, Cymbeline, The Winter's Tale, The Tempest, as well as Shakespeare's part in the collaborations with John Fletcher (Henry VIII and The Two Noble Kinsmen), exhibit a challenging verse style - verbally condensed, metrically and syntactically sophisticated, both conversational and highly wrought. In Shakespeare's Late Style, McDonald anatomizes the components of this late style, illustrating in a series of topically organized chapters the contribution of such features as ellipsis, grammatical suspension, and various forms of repetition. Resisting the sentimentality that frequently attends discussion of an artist's 'late' period, Shakespeare's Late Style shows how the poetry of the last plays reveals their creator's ambivalent attitude towards art, language, men and women, the theatre, and his own professional career.

Item Type:	Book
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	English and Comparative Literature
Date:	2006
Item ID:	1105
Date Deposited:	12 Mar 2009 15:41
Last Modified:	12 Mar 2015 08:36
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/1105

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