Includes bibliographical references (pages 354-393) and index.
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Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; CHAPTER 1 Shakespeare and the idea of late writing: authorship in the proximity of death; 1.1 La dernière période; 1.2 Late style in the wake of war: Neumann, Broch, Adorno; 1.3 The shapes of lateness; 1.4 Late Shakespeare; 1.5 Shakespeare and the idea of late writing; CHAPTER 2 The Shakespearean caesura: genre, chronology, style; 2.1 A question of genre; 2.2 A question of chronology; 2.3 A question of style; CHAPTER 3 The invention of late Shakespeare: subjectivism and its discontents.
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3.1 'Dramatick perfection': Malone and the establishment of a chronology3.2 Inventing late Shakespeare from Coleridge to Dowden; 3.3 The backlash: (post) subjectivism from Strachey to Bond; 3.4 'A certain mastery': Henry James and the elusive late Shakespeare; CHAPTER 4 Last words/late plays: the possibility and impossibility of late Shakespeare in early modern culture and theatre; 4.1 Premodern endings; 4.2 The Shakespearean swan song; 4.3 Last words; 4.4 Late style and the conditions of theatrical production in early modern London.
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6.5 Postscript: late style in Australia: Bell, Prospero, ShakespeareNotes; Introduction; 1 Shakespeare and the idea of late writing: authorship in the proximity of death; 2 The Shakespearean caesura: genre, chronology, style; 3 The invention of late Shakespeare: subjectivism and its discontents; 4 Last words/late plays: the possibility and impossibility of late Shakespeare in early modern culture and theatre; 5 How old is 'late'? Late Shakespeare, old age, King Lear; 6 The Tempest and the uses of late Shakespeare in the theatre: Gielgud, Rylance, Prospero; Index.
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CHAPTER 5 How old is 'late'? Late Shakespeare, old age, King Lear5.1 Old-age style; 5.2 Old-age style without old age; 5.3 Shakespeare's middle years; 5.4 'I have a journey, sir, shortly to go': King Lear as a late play; 5.5 Kings and desperate men; CHAPTER 6 The Tempest and the uses of late Shakespeare in the theatre: Gielgud, Rylance, Prospero; 6.1 Theatre of complicity; 6.2 Lateness and the mid-life crisis; 6.3 Performing late selfhood: Gielgud, Prospero, Shakespeare; 6.4 Authorship and authenticity: Rylance, Prospero, Shakespeare.
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An account of Shakespeare's last plays in relation to the idea of 'late style'.
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Shakespeare and the Idea of Late Writing : Authorship in the Proximity of Death.