Table of Contents

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": Sidney’s Unities and the Staging of Romance

Cyrus Mulready

Part II: Page and Stage

4 "A Note Beyond Your Reach": Prose Fiction’s Rivalry with Elizabethan Drama

Steve Mentz

5 Hamlet and Eourdanus

Goran Stanivukovic

6 Reading the Book of the Self in Shakespeare’s Cymbeline and Wroth’s Urania

Sarah Wall-Randell

7 Virtual Audiences and Virtual Authors: The Winter’s 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 Winter’s Tale

Gloria Olchowy

9 Romancing the Wager: Cymbeline’s Intertexts

Valerie Wayne

10 John Fletcher’s Women Pleased and the Pedagogy Reading of Romance

Joyce Boro

11 Undoing Romance: Beaumont and Fletcher’s Resistant Reading of the The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia

Clare R. Kinney

12 Probable Infidelities from Bandello to Massinger

Lorna Hutson

13 Afterword: Shakespeare and Romance

Barbara Mowat

Notes on Contributors

Index