Late Shakespeare and the English Baroque focuses mainly on Shakespeare’s late (or later) works, those written from around 1607. It sets both poetry and plays within the emerging culture of the baroque, the term defined not merely by stylistic features but by the underlying ideological ‘structure of feeling’ of baroque culture in early modern England.
Introduction and Acknowledgements
Chapter One: Late Shakespeare and the English Baroque
Chapter Two: Hyperbole and Melancholy: the Baroques Key Structure of Feeling
Chapter Three: Plays, Players, Playing: the Multiple Theatricality of the
Baroque
Chapter Four: Shakespeares Late Writings and the Female Baroque
Chapter Five Towards a Baroque Poetics I: Shake-speares Sonnets
Chapter Six: Towards a Baroque Poetics II: The Phoenix and Turtle and A
Lovers Complaint
Chapter Seven: Shakespearean Baroque: Tragedy in an Emptying World
Chapter Eight: Shakespearean Baroque: From Tragedy to Tragi-Comedy
Chapter Nine: The Tempest: Plateauing and the Gradual Immanentism of the
Baroque: Shakespeare, Montaigne, Bruno, Vermeer
Index
Gary Waller is SUNY Distinguished Professor of Literature and Cultural Studies Emeritus, Purchase College, SUNY. His books include English Poetry in the Sixteenth Century, The Sidney Family Romance, Walsingham and the English Imagination, The Annunciation: A Cultural History, The Virgin Mary in Medieval and Early Modern Literature and Popular Culture, and The Female Baroque in Early Modern English Literary Culture.
