Staging Early Modern Romance: Prose Fiction, Dramatic Romance, and Shakespeare

by Mary Ellen Lamb

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415962811
• ISBN13: 9780415962810
• Release Date: December 2008
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 274 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.3"