Shakespeare's last plays, the tragicomic Romances, are notoriously strange plays, riddled with fabulous events and incredible coincidences, magic and dream. First published in 1987, this book offers a reading of the plays which invokes the findings and methods of post-psychoanalytic semiotics.

Acknowledgements. 1. Beyond Genre 2. The Perils of Pericles 3. Cymbeline: The Rescue of the King 4. Delusions and Dreams: The Winter's Tale 5. Subtleties of the Isle: The Tempest. Notes. References. Index.