Romance on the Early Modern Stage [electronic resource] : English Expansion Before and After Shakespeare /
Mulready, Cyrus.author.
What is dramatic romance? Scholars have long turned to Shakespeare's biography to answer this question, marking his 'late plays' as the beginning and end of the dramatic romance. This book identifies an earlier history for this genre, revealing how stage romances imaginatively expanded audience interest in England's emerging global economy.
Description based upon print version of record.
""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""List of Illustrations""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Introduction: Romance and the Globe""; ""1 Romancing Shakespeare""; ""2 ""Asia of the one side, and Afric of the other"": Sidney's Unities and the Staging of Romance""; ""3 Imagined Empires: The Cultural Geography of Stage Romance""; ""4 Chronicle History, Cosmopolitan Romance: Henry V and the Generic Boundaries of the Second Tetralogy""; ""5 Containing Romance and Plotting Empire in The Tempest and Pericles""; ""6 Milton's Imperial Maske: Staging Romance on the Border of Wales""
""Coda: Global Romance after Shakespeare""""Appendix: Titles and Dates of Stage Romances""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""
Includes bibliographical references and index.
What is dramatic romance? Scholars have long turned to Shakespeare's biography to answer this question, marking his 'late plays' as the beginning and end of the dramatic romance. This book identifies an earlier history for this genre, revealing how stage romances imaginatively expanded audience interest in England's emerging global economy.
Poetry.
Literature, Modern.
Performing arts.
Theater—History.
British literature.
Poetry and Poetics.
Early Modern/Renaissance Literature.
Performing Arts.
Theatre History.
British and Irish Literature.