Staging Early Modern Romance

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 Incongruities

1 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 Newcomb

3 "Asia of the one side, and Afric of the other": Sidney’s Unities and the Staging of Romance

Cyrus Mulready

Part II: Page and Stage

4 "A Note Beyond Your Reach": Prose Fiction’s Rivalry with Elizabethan Drama

Steve Mentz

5 Hamlet and Eourdanus

Goran Stanivukovic

6 Reading the Book of the Self in Shakespeare’s Cymbeline and Wroth’s Urania

Sarah Wall-Randell

7 Virtual Audiences and Virtual Authors: The Winter’s Tale, The Tempest, and Old Wives’ Tales

Mary Ellen Lamb

Part III: Gender and Agency

8 The Issue of the Corpus Christi Cycles, or "Religious Romance," in The Winter’s Tale

Gloria Olchowy

9 Romancing the Wager: Cymbeline’s Intertexts

Valerie Wayne

10 John Fletcher’s Women Pleased and the Pedagogy Reading of Romance

Joyce Boro

11 Undoing Romance: Beaumont and Fletcher’s Resistant Reading of the The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia

Clare R. Kinney

12 Probable Infidelities from Bandello to Massinger

Lorna Hutson

13 Afterword: Shakespeare and Romance

Barbara Mowat

Notes on Contributors

Index