The Cambridge companion to Shakespeare's last plays / edited by Catherine M.S. Alexander.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.