Late Shakespeare, 1608–1613

Andrew J. Power is a Visiting Lecturer in Shakespeare and Early Modern Literature at the University of Cyprus. His forthcoming book is entitled Stages of Madness: Sin, Sickness, and Seneca in Shakespeare. He is also working on another monograph study about the classical dramatic sources of Shakespeare's early tragedies, entitled Love, Tyranny and Revenge: Shakespeare, Elizabeth I and the Senecan Tradition. Amongst other chapter and article contributions to a range of journals and collections, he is a contributing author to the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean Tragedy. In 2014 he will co-edit the MHRA Yearbook of English Studies on Caroline literature with Rory Loughnane and Peter Sillitoe. Rory Loughnane is Associate Editor of the New Oxford Shakespeare at Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis. He has previously worked at Trinity College Dublin, where he held an IRCHSS Postdoctoral Fellowship, and Syracuse University, where he was a Visiting Assistant Professor of Early Modern Literature. In addition to Late Shakespeare, 1608–1613, he is editor of Celtic Shakespeare: The Bard and the Borderers (2013, with Willy Maley), Staged Transgression in Shakespeare's England (2013, with Edel Semple) and The Yearbook of English Studies for 2014, dedicated to Caroline Literature (with Andrew Power and Peter Sillitoe).

Introduction Andrew J. Power and Rory Loughnane; 1. Pericles, Prince of Tyre: Pericles, Prince of Tyre and the appetite for narrative Andrew Hiscock; 2. Coriolanus: Coriolanus and the late romances David George; 3. Cymbeline: recognition in Cymbeline Raphael Lyne; 4. The Winter's Tale: kinetic emblems and memory images in The Winter's Tale William E. Engel; 5. The Tempest: 'hush, and be mute': silences in The Tempest Michael Neill; 6. King Henry VIII: semi-choric devices and the framework for playgoer response in King Henry VIII Rory Loughnane; 7. The Two Noble Kinsmen: Shakespeare's final phase: The Two Noble Kinsmen in its context Sandra Clark; 8. Shakespeare: from author to audience to print, 1608–13 Grace Ioppolo; 9. Reading strange matter: words and text in Shakespeare's late plays Charlotte Scott; 10. Late Shakespeare, late players Andrew J. Power; 11. Cities in late Shakespeare Adam Hansen; 12. Shakespeare and James I: personal rule and public responsibility Stuart M. Kurland; 13. Writing faithfully in a post-confessional world Thomas Betteridge; 14. Magic and gender in late Shakespeare Ian McAdam; Afterword Gordon McMullan.