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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