Shakespeares Last Plays

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. Introduction; Chapter 1 The Elizabethan Revival in the Jacobean Age; Chapter 2 Cymbeline; Chapter 3 Henry VIII; Chapter 4 Magic in the Last Plays: The Tempest; Chapter 5 A Sequel: Ben Jonson and the Last Plays; Epilogue;