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Author:

McMullan, Gordon, 1962-

Title:

Shakespeare and the idea of late writing : authorship in the proximity of death / Gordon McMullan.

Publisher:

Cambridge University Press,

Copyright Date:

2007

Description:

xii, 402 p. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Shakespeare, William,--1564-1616--Literary style.
Authorship--Psychological aspects.
Old age--Psychological aspects.
Death--Psychological aspects.
Style, Literary.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 354-393) and index.

Contents:

Shakespeare and the idea of late writing : authorship in the proximity of death -- The Shakespearean caesura : genre, chronology, style -- The invention of late Shakespeare : subjectivism and its discontents -- Last words/late plays : the possibility and impossibility of late Shakespeare in early modern culture and theatre -- How old is 'late'? : late Shakespeare, old age, King Lear -- The tempest and the uses of late Shakespeare in the theatre : Gielgud, Rylance, Prospero.

ISBN:

052186304X (cased)
9780521863049 (cased)

LCCN:

2008295881

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)