Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Part I Continuities and Incongruities; 1 Introduction: Into the Forest; 2 The Sources of Romance, the Generation of Story, and the Patterns of Pericles Tales; 3 "Asia of the One Side, and Afric of the Other": Sidney's Unities and the Staging of Romance; Part II Page and Stage; 4 "A Note Beyond Your Reach": Prose Romance's Rivalry with Elizabethan Drama; 5 Hamlet and Euordanus; 6 Reading the Book of the Self in Shakespeare's Cymbeline and Wroth's Urania
Summary
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 Shakespeares late plays