Staging early modern romance
Subtitle: prose fiction, dramatic romance, and Shakespeare
By: edited by Mary Ellen Lamb and Valerie Wayne.
Contributors: Lamb, Mary Ellen, 1946-; Wayne, Valerie.
Series: Routledge studies in Renaissance literature and culture -- 11
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 261
ISBN-13: 9780415962810; 9780203882078
Subjects: Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616 -- Sources; Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616 -- Knowledge -- Literature; English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 -- History and criticism; English prose literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism; Romances, English -- Adaptations -- History and criticism; Romances -- Adaptations -- History and criticism; Romanticism -- England -- History -- 16th century
Genres: Sources.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Continuities and incongruities. Introduction: into the forest / Mary Ellen Lamb and Valerie Wayne; title: The sources of romance, the generation of story, and the patterns of the Pericles tales / Lori Humphrey Newcomb; title: "Asia of the one side, and Africa of the other": Sidney's unities and the staging of romance / Cyrus Mulready; title: Page and stage. "A Note Beyond Your Reach": prose      fiction's rivalry with Elizabethan drama / Steve Mentz; title: Hamlet and Eourdanus / Goran Stanivukovic; title: Reading the book of the self in Shakespeare's Cymbeline and Wroth's Urania / Sarah Wall-Randell; title: Virtual audiences and virtual authors: The winter's tale, The tempest, and Old wives' tales / Mary Ellen Lamb; title: Gender and agency. The issue of the Corpus Christi Cycles, or "religious romance," in The winter's Tale / Gloria Olchowy; title: Romancing the wager: Cymbeline's Intertexts / Valerie Wayne; title: John Fletcher's Women pleased and the pedagogy reading of romance / Joyce Boro; title: Undoing romance: Beaumont and Fletcher's resistant reading of The countess of Pembroke's Arcadia / Clare R. Kinney.