ABSTRACT

This is Volume VI in the selected works of Frances Yates, providing a new approach to Shakespeare's last plays. First published in 1975, these are a collection of lectures that offer the new thinking about certain ideas concerning Shakespeare's relation to the problemsand thought currents of his times.

chapter |13 pages

Introduction

chapter 2|23 pages

Cymbeline

chapter 3|21 pages

Henry VIII

chapter 4|22 pages

Magic in the Last Plays: The Tempest

chapter 5|19 pages

A Sequel: Ben Jonson and the Last Plays

chapter |7 pages

Epilogue