Shakespeare's Late Style

Portions of several chapters were presented, formally and informally, at meetings of the Shakespeare Association of America, the International Conference at the Shakespeare Institute of the University of Birmingham, the Folger Shakespeare Library Teaching Shakespeare Institute, and to various audiences at the following institutions: Nazareth College, the Ohio State University, the University of Rochester, the University of North Carolina atGreensboro, St. LawrenceUniversity, theUniversity ofCalifornia at Berkeley, the University of Alabama. I am indebted to many who on those occasions responded with criticism, advice, suggestions, doubts, and kindness.
Staff members at the following libraries have been much more helpful than they needed to be, and I thank them: the Furness Library at the University of Pennsylvania, Rush Rhees Library of the University of Rochester, Jackson Library of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, the Folger Shakespeare Library, and the British Library. Having worked on this book over more than one sabbatical leave, I am grateful for the support of numerous deans and chairs at the University of Rochester and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. I also wish to thank my colleagues in the English Departments of both those universities.