This new collection reflects a resurgence of interest in Shakespeare's plays performed between 1608 and 1613: Pericles, Cymbeline, The Winter's Tale, The Tempest, All is True (Henry VIII), The Two Noble Kinsmen, and Cardenio. It offers a broad range of new, historicist approaches, touching upon key topics in current Shakespearean studies, such as kinship relations, manliness, magic, medico-politics, nationalism, rhetoric, schism, sexuality and staging conventions. The plays are explored both individually and within generic, thematic and chronological groups. Each author combines new research with their experience of teaching the plays, offering innovative approaches to some well-known works, as well as encouraging readers to explore less familiar dramas such as Pericles, Cymbeline, All is True and The Two Noble Kinsmen. The volume is unusual in its coverage of the lost 'late' play Cardenio, and considers its significance for our conception of the 'lateness' of these plays. This book will fill a large gap in the market for a broad-ranging critical introduction to this important and increasingly popular area in Shakespeare's work, and is suitable as a textbook for undergraduate, graduate and more general readers.

シェイクスピアが晩年に辿り着いた、再生と和解が混じる静謐な境地。本書は、これらロマンス劇を、単なる物語としてではなく、政治や魔法、性の揺らぎが交錯する実験的空間として鮮烈に提示します。特に失われた戯曲への言及は、文豪の創作における「晩年」の定義を根底から揺さぶる、極めてスリリングな試みです。 緻密な歴史的視座と教育的知見が融合した解説は、読者に文豪の深淵な知性を体感させ、未踏の感動へ誘います。古典の静寂に潜む、激しい情熱と人間性の真実。その断片を拾い集める本書は、文学の可能性を信じる全ての魂を震わせる、至高の道標となるでしょう。