Shakespearean Romance

ISBN: 9780691619606 出版年：2015 页码：332 Felperin, Howard Princeton University Press

If shakespeare's last plays--pericles, cymbeline, the winter's tale, the tempest, and henry viii--are to be neither debunked nor idealized but taken seriously on their own terms, they must be examined within the traditions and conventions of romance. Howard felperin defines this relatively neglected literary mode and locates these plays within it. But, as he shows, romance was not simply an established genre in which shakespeare worked at both the beginning and end of his career but a mode of perceiving the world that pervades and shapes his entire work.