Four Late Plays
Pericles, Cymbeline, The winter's tale, The tempest
by William Shakespeare
'It is required you do awake your faith' (The Winter's Tale). Written late in Shakespeare's life, these plays delightfully exhibit his interest in the conventions of the fairy-tale. They are tales of enchantment, heard from afar and seen through a fine gauze. In this fantasy world truths about the real world are played out on a different plane. In each play a family is forcibly divided through natural mischance (a storm at sea) or human folly (a wrongful accusation), and in each the lost ones are restored to their families. We move from the pain of separation through the despair of loss to the joy of restoration and resurrection. This mature vision of the world looks unblinkingly into the jaws of despair, yet still chooses to consider life worth celebrating.
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Four Late Plays: Pericles, Cymbeline, The winter's tale, The tempest
2001, Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
Paperback
in English
1840221046 9781840221046
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Romances
1996, Everyman's Library
Hardcover
in English
- Millenium Project edition
1857152298 9781857152296
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The Late Romances: Pericles / Cymbeline / The Winter's Tale / The Tempest
1988-02, Bantam Books
Mass Market Paperback
in English
- Bantam edition
0553212885 9780553212884
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The Works of Shakespeare: In Ten Volumes: Vol. IV
1902, Macmillan Company
Hardcover
in English
- Eversley Edition
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Cymbeline
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Pericles
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Tempest
- Winter's Tale
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