Overview

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. Although Pericles, Cymbeline, Winter’s Tale, and The Tempest have long been characterized as ""romances,"" their connections with the popular prose romances of their day and the dramatic romances that preceded them have frequently been overlooked. Constructed to explore those connections, this volume includes original essays that relate at least one prose or dramatic romance to an English play written from 1570 to 1630. The introduction explores the use of the term ""dramatic romance"" over several centuries and the commercial association between print culture, gender, and drama. Eight essays discuss Shakespeare’s plays; three more examine plays by Beaumont, Fletcher, and Massinger. Other authors treated at some length include Boccaccio, Christine de Pizan, Chaucer, Sidney, Greene, Lodge, and Wroth. Barbara Mowat’s afterword considers Shakespeare’s use of Greek romance. Written by foremost scholars of Shakespeare and early modern prose fiction, this book explores the vital cross-currents that occurred between narrative and dramatic forms of Greek, medieval, and early modern romance.

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Author:   Mary Ellen Lamb (Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, USA) ,  Valerie Wayne (University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.510kg
ISBN:  

9780415879385

ISBN 10:   0415879388
Pages:   266
Publication Date:   26 January 2010
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"Acknowledgments Part I: Continuities and Incongruities 1 Introduction: Into the Forest Mary Ellen Lamb and Valerie Wayne 2 The Sources of Romance, the Generation of Story, and the Patterns of the Pericles Tales Lori Humphrey Newcomb 3 ""Asia of the one side, and Afric of the other"": Sidney’s Unities and the Staging of Romance Cyrus Mulready Part II: Page and Stage 4 ""A Note Beyond Your Reach"": Prose Fiction’s Rivalry with Elizabethan Drama Steve Mentz 5 Hamlet and Eourdanus Goran Stanivukovic 6 Reading the Book of the Self in Shakespeare’s Cymbeline and Wroth’s Urania Sarah Wall-Randell 7 Virtual Audiences and Virtual Authors: The Winter’s Tale, The Tempest, and Old Wives’ Tales Mary Ellen Lamb Part III: Gender and Agency 8 The Issue of the Corpus Christi Cycles, or ""Religious Romance,"" in The Winter’s Tale Gloria Olchowy 9 Romancing the Wager: Cymbeline’s Intertexts Valerie Wayne 10 John Fletcher’s Women Pleased and the Pedagogy Reading of Romance Joyce Boro 11 Undoing Romance: Beaumont and Fletcher’s Resistant Reading of the The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia Clare R. Kinney 12 Probable Infidelities from Bandello to Massinger Lorna Hutson 13 Afterword: Shakespeare and Romance Barbara Mowat Notes on Contributors Index"

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Valerie Wayne is Professor of English at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. She is Associate General Editor of The Collected Works of Thomas Middleton (Oxford, 2007), editor of The Flower of Friendship by Edmund Tilney, and The Matter of Differerence. Mary Ellen Lamb is Professor of English at Southern Illinois University and her most recent book is The Popular Culture of Shakespeare, Spenser, and Jonson (Routledge, 2006).

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