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": Sidneys Unities and the Staging of Romance Cyrus Mulready Part II: Page and Stage 4 "A Note Beyond Your Reach": Prose Fictions Rivalry with Elizabethan Drama Steve Mentz 5 Hamlet and Eourdanus Goran Stanivukovic 6 Reading the Book of the Self in Shakespeares Cymbeline and Wroths Urania Sarah Wall-Randell 7 Virtual Audiences and Virtual Authors: The Winters 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 Winters Tale Gloria Olchowy 9 Romancing the Wager: Cymbelines Intertexts Valerie Wayne 10 John Fletchers Women Pleased and the Pedagogy Reading of Romance Joyce Boro 11 Undoing Romance: Beaumont and Fletchers Resistant Reading of the The Countess of Pembrokes Arcadia Clare R. Kinney 12 Probable Infidelities from Bandello to Massinger Lorna Hutson 13 Afterword: Shakespeare and Romance Barbara Mowat Notes on Contributors Index