| Contents |
Continuities and incongruities. Introduction: into the forest / Mary Ellen Lamb and Valerie Wayne -- The sources of romance, the generation of story, and the patterns of the Pericles tales / Lori Humphrey Newcomb -- "Asia of the one side, and Afric of the other": Sidney's unities and the staging of romance / Cyrus Mulready -- Page and stage. "A Note Beyond Your Reach": prose romance's rivalry with Elizabethan drama / Steve Mentz -- Hamlet and Eourdanus / Goran Stanivukovic -- Reading the book of the self in Shakespeare's Cymbeline and Wroth's Urania / Sarah Wall-Randell -- Virtual audiences and virtual authors: The winter's tale, The tempest, and old wives' tales / Mary Ellen Lamb -- Gender and agency. The issue of the Corpus Christi cycles, or "religious romance," in The winter's tale / Gloria Olchowy -- Romancing the wager: Cymbeline's intertexts / Valerie Wayne -- John Fletcher's Women pleased and the pedagogy of reading romance / Joyce Boro -- Undoing romance: Beaumont and Fletcher's resistant reading of The countess of Pembroke's Arcadia / Clare R. Kinney -- Probable infidelities from Bandello to Massinger / Lorna Hutson -- Afterword: Shakespeare and romance / Barbara A. Mowat. |
