Introduction / Catherine M.S. Alexander - What is a 'late play'? / Gordon McMullan - Blackfriars, music and masque: theatrical contexts of the last plays / David Lindley - The literary and dramatic contexts of the last plays / Charles Moseley - Politics, religion, geography and travel: historical contexts of the last plays / Karen Britland - 'You speak a language that I understand not': listening to the last plays / Russ McDonald - The winter's tale: shifts in staging and status / Patricia Tatspaugh - Cymbeline: the afterlife / Catherine M.S. Alexander - Literary invocations of The tempest / Virginia Mason Vaughan - Pericles: the afterlife / Eugene Giddens - The two noble kinsmen and King Henry VIII: the last last plays / Suzanne Gossett