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Staging Early Modern Romance

Prose Fiction, Dramatic Romance, and Shakespeare

Häftad, Engelska, 2010

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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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Utgivningsdatum2010-01-26
Mått152 x 229 x 15 mm
Vikt510 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieRoutledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture
Antal sidor266
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9780415879385

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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).

Acknowledgments Part I: Continuities and Incongruities1 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 Newcomb3 "Asia of the one side, and Afric of the other": Sidney’s Unities and the Staging of Romance Cyrus MulreadyPart II: Page and Stage4 "A Note Beyond Your Reach": Prose Fiction’s Rivalry with Elizabethan Drama Steve Mentz5 Hamlet and Eourdanus Goran Stanivukovic6 Reading the Book of the Self in Shakespeare’s Cymbeline and Wroth’s Urania Sarah Wall-Randell7 Virtual Audiences and Virtual Authors: The Winter’s Tale, The Tempest, and Old Wives’ Tales Mary Ellen Lamb Part III: Gender and Agency8 The Issue of the Corpus Christi Cycles, or "Religious Romance," in The Winter’s Tale Gloria Olchowy9 Romancing the Wager: Cymbeline’s Intertexts Valerie Wayne10 John Fletcher’s Women Pleased and the Pedagogy Reading of Romance Joyce Boro11 Undoing Romance: Beaumont and Fletcher’s Resistant Reading of the The Countess of Pembroke’s ArcadiaClare R. Kinney12 Probable Infidelities from Bandello to Massinger Lorna Hutson13 Afterword: Shakespeare and Romance Barbara MowatNotes on Contributors Index

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