Bereft and Beruffed
Michael Dobson: Shakespeare’s Last Plays, 6 June 2019
Shakespeare’s Lyric Stage: Myth, Music and Poetry in the Last Plays
by Seth Lerer.
Chicago, 276 pp., £20.50, November 2018,978 0 226 58254 2 Show More
by Seth Lerer.
Chicago, 276 pp., £20.50, November 2018,
“... Did Shakespeare know they were his ‘last plays’? Or his ‘late romances’? The very terms by which scholars habitually refer to Pericles, The Winter’s Tale, Cymbeline, The Tempest, All Is True (Henry VIII) and The Two Noble Kinsmen, all composed between about 1607 and 1613 – between Shakespeare’s 43rd year and his 49th – compound the issue of genre with questions of biography ... ”