Shakespeare Idea of Late Writing
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The idea of 'late style' claims that, in their last few years, certain great artists, writers or composers enter a rejuvenated phase of serene, abstract, archaic or childlike creativity, a phenomenon held to result from the proximity of death. Gordon McMullan reads late style not as a transhistorical phenomenon but as a critical construct, taking Shakespeare as his exemplar. He maps the development of the idea of 'late Shakespeare' from the late eighteenth century to the present, showing the mismatch between what he calls the 'discourse of lateness' and the actual conditions of production and ...
The idea of 'late style' claims that, in their last few years, certain great artists, writers or composers enter a rejuvenated phase of serene, abstract, archaic or childlike creativity, a phenomenon held to result from the proximity of death. Gordon McMullan reads late style not as a transhistorical phenomenon but as a critical construct, taking Shakespeare as his exemplar. He maps the development of the idea of 'late Shakespeare' from the late eighteenth century to the present, showing the mismatch between what he calls the 'discourse of lateness' and the actual conditions of production and of authorship in early modern theatre. The book offers the first full critique of the idea of late style, which will be of interest not only to literature specialists but also to art historians and musicologists and to anyone curious about the relationship of creativity to old age and death.
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