These essays apply the postmodernist theory of intertextuality to romantic drama of the English Renaissance, including work by Heywood, Beaumont and Fletcher, Ford, and especially Shakespeare.
Introduction - 'Not Amurath an Amurath Succeeds': Striking Crowns into the Hazard and Playing Doubles in Shakespeare's Henriad - Re-inscribing Romance in Troilus and Cressida - Killing (a Woman) with Kindness: Duplicitous Intertextuality and the Domestication of Romance - Attribution and Tribute in Pericles - Deceiving Appearances: Neo-Chaucerian Magic in The Tempest - (Mis)Appropriating the Romance Past in The Two Noble Kinsmen - Romance Exhausted: Philaster and The Broken Heart - Works Cited - Index