Staging early modern romance : prose fiction, dramatic romance, and Shakespeare
Mary Ellen Lamb (Editor), Valerie Wayne (Editor)
This collection recovers the continuities between three forms of romance that have often been separated from one another in critical discourse: early modern prose fiction, the dramatic romances staged in England during the 1570s and 1580s, and Shakespeare’s late plays.
Criticism, interpretation, etc
1 online resource (x, 261 pages) : illustrations
9780203882078, 0203882075
310375372
Continuities and incongruities. Introduction: into the forest / Mary Ellen Lamb and Valerie Wayne
The sources of romance, the generation of story, and the patterns of the Pericles tales / Lori Humphrey Newcomb
"Asia of the one side, and Afric of the other": Sidney's unities and the staging of romance / Cyrus Mulready
Page and stage. "A Note Beyond Your Reach": prose romance's rivalry with Elizabethan drama / Steve Mentz
Hamlet and Eourdanus / Goran Stanivukovic
Reading the book of the self in Shakespeare's Cymbeline and Wroth's Urania / Sarah Wall-Randell
Virtual audiences and virtual authors: The winter's tale, The tempest, and old wives' tales / Mary Ellen Lamb
Gender and agency. The issue of the Corpus Christi cycles, or "religious romance," in The winter's tale / Gloria Olchowy
Romancing the wager: Cymbeline's intertexts / Valerie Wayne
John Fletcher's Women pleased and the pedagogy of reading romance / Joyce Boro
Undoing romance: Beaumont and Fletcher's resistant reading of The countess of Pembroke's Arcadia / Clare R. Kinney
Probable infidelities from Bandello to Massinger / Lorna Hutson
Afterword: Shakespeare and romance / Barbara A. Mowat