Shakespeare's Last Plays

Shakespeare''s Last Plays was the first of E. M. W. Tilyard''s influential works on Shakespeare. In it, Dr Tilyard argues that the last plays – Cymbeline, The Winter''s Tale and The Tempest – develop patterns found in the earlier works. He shows how Shakespeare intertwines reconciliation (the final phase of the tragedies) with an awareness of possible worlds (where the ''natural'' and supernatural...