Staging Early Modern Romance: Prose Fiction, Dramatic Romance, and ShakespeareMary Ellen Lamb, Valerie Wayne Routledge, 13/01/2009 - 267 من الصفحات 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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... to the plays, but“to the forestsofromance fromwhichthese playswere cultivated.... By relocatingShakespeare's writing ... tothe “strange, ahistorical categorization” by which Shakespeare'splays came tobe called “romantic” or “romances” in ...
... tothe forest metaphor, therewere manykinds oftrees. Prose romance encompassedmuchpublished retellings oftales ofmedieval heroes suchas Bevis of Hampton and Guy of Warwick; newer foreign imports such as the primarily Italian ...
... tothe falling cultural prestige of medieval romance, for a readingpublic that increasingly included nonelite readers, they only enhanced the appealof theirearly modern derivatives, such asthemuchpublished Spanish romance Amadis ...
... tothe opening scene ofthe Aethiopian History,and inRobert Greene's Mamillia and Menaphon(Mentz 73–122). The riseof ... to the early modern stage. The appendix toCyrus Mulready's chapter inthis book reveals the extent to whichthe relative ...
... tothe primaryfeatures of Shakespeare's ownromances, which WalterCohen identifies as “violenceandliteralor metaphorical death,thepassage oftime, an intergenerational orientation, sufferingand repentance, forgiveness and the ...
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The Sources of Romance the Generation | |
Page and Stage 4 A Note Beyond Your Reach Prose Romances | |
STEVE MENTZ 5 Hamlet andEuordanus 91 | |
Reading the Book of the Self in Shakespeares | |
The Issue of the Corpus Christi Cycles | |
Cymbeline s Intertexts | |
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Beaumont and Fletchers | |
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Contributors | |