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New Casebooks Shakespeare’s Romances Edited by Alison Thorne New Casebooks POETRY WILLIAM BLAKE Edited by David Punter CHAUCER Edited by Valerie Allen and Aries Axiotis COLERIDGE, KEATS AND SHELLEY Edited by Peter J. Kitson JOHN DONNE Edited by Andrew Mousley SEAMUS HEANEY Edited by Michael Allen PHILIP LARKIN Edited by Stephen Regan DYLAN THOMAS Edited by John Goodby and Chris Wigginton VICTORIAN WOMEN POETS Edited by Joseph Bristow WORDSWORTH Edited by John Williams PARADISE LOST Edited by William Zunder NOVELS AND PROSE AUSTEN:EmmaEdited by David Monaghan AUSTEN:Mansfield Park andPersuasionEdited by Judy Simons AUSTEN:Sense and Sensibility andPride and PrejudiceEdited by Robert Clark CHARLOTTE BRONTE¨:Jane EyreEdited by Heather Glen CHARLOTTE BRONTE¨:VilletteEdited by Pauline Nestor EMILY BRONTE¨:Wuthering HeightsEdited by Patsy Stoneman ANGELA CARTEREdited by Alison Easton WILKIE COLLINSEdited by Lyn Pykett JOSEPH CONRADEdited by Elaine Jordan DICKENS:Bleak HouseEdited by Jeremy Tambling DICKENS:David Copperfield andHard TimesEdited by John Peck DICKENS:Great ExpectationsEdited by Roger Sell ELIOT:The Mill on the Floss and Silas MarnerEdited by Nahem Yousaf and Andrew Maunder ELIOT:MiddlemarchEdited by John Peck E.M. FORSTEREdited by Jeremy Tambling HARDY:Jude the ObscureEdited by Penny Boumelha HARDY:The Mayor of CasterbridgeEdited by Julian Wolfreys HARDY:Tess of the D’UrbervillesEdited by Peter Widdowson JAMES:Turn of the Screw andWhat Maisie KnewEdited by Neil Cornwell and Maggie Malone LAWRENCE:Sons and LoversEdited by Rick Rylance TONI MORRISONEdited by Linden Peach GEORGE ORWELLEdited by Byran Loughrey SHELLEY:FrankensteinEdited by Fred Botting STOKER:DraculaEdited by Glennis Byron WOOLF:Mrs DallowayandTo the LighthouseEdited by Su Reid (continued overleaf) DRAMA BECKETT: Waiting for Godot and Endgame Edited by Steven Connor APHRA BEHN Edited by Janet Todd REVENGE TRAGEDY Edited by Stevie Simkin SHAKESPEARE: Antony and Cleopatra Edited by John Drakakis SHAKESPEARE: HamletEdited by Martin Coyle SHAKESPEARE: Julius CaesarEdited by Richard Wilson SHAKESPEARE: King Lear Edited by Kiernan Ryan SHAKESPEARE: MacbethEdited by Alan Sinfield SHAKESPEARE: The Merchant of Venice Edited by Martin Coyle SHAKESPEARE: A Midsummer Night’s DreamEdited by Richard Dutton SHAKESPEARE: Much Ado About Nothing andThe Taming of the Shrew Edited by Marion Wynne-Davies SHAKESPEARE: Romeo and Juliet Edited by R. S. White SHAKESPEARE: The Tempest Edited by R. S. White SHAKESPEARE: Twelfth Night Edited by R. S. White SHAKESPEARE ON FILM Edited by Robert Shaughnessy SHAKESPEARE IN PERFORMANCE Edited by Robert Shaughnessy SHAKESPEARE’S HISTORY PLAYS Edited by Graham Holderness SHAKESPEARE’S ROMANCES Edited by Alison Thorne SHAKESPEARE’S TRAGEDIES Edited by Susan Zimmerman JOHN WEBSTER: The Duchess of Malfi Edited by Dympna Callaghan GENERAL THEMES FEMINIST THEATRE AND THEORY Edited by Helene Keyssar POSTCOLONIAL LITERATURES Edited by Michael Parker and Roger Starkey New Casebooks Series Series Standing Order ISBN 0–333–71702–3 hardcover ISBN 0–333–69345–0 paperback (outside North America only) You can receive future titles in this series as they are published by placing a standing order. Please contact your bookseller or, in case of difficulty, write to us at the address below with your name and address, the title of the series and the ISBN quoted above. Customer Services Department, Macmillan Distribution Ltd Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS, England New Casebooks SHAKESPEARE’S ROMANCES EDITED BY ALISON THORNE Introduction, selection and editorial matter © Alison Thorne 2003 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No paragraph of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, 90 Tottenham Court Road, London W1T 4LP. Any person who does any unauthorised act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. The authors have asserted their rights to be identified as the authors of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. First published 2003 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS and 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N. Y. 10010 Companies and representatives throughout the world PALGRAVE MACMILLAN is the global academic imprint of the Palgrave Macmillan division of St. Martin’s press, LLC and of Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. Macmillan*pris a registered trademark in the United States, United Kingdom and other countries. Palgrave is a registered trademark in the European Union and other countries. ISBN 0–333–67974–1 hardback ISBN 0–333–67975–4 paperback This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Shakespeare’s romances/edited by Alison Thorne. p. cm. – (New casebooks) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0–333–67974–1 – ISBN 0–333–67975–X (pbk.) 1. Shakespeare, William, 1564–1616 – Tragicomedies. 2. Tragicomedy. I. Thorne, Alison, 1959– II. New casebooks (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm)) PR2981.5 .S488 2002 822.3’3–dc21 2002030377 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 12 11 10 09 08 07 06 05 04 03 Printed and bound in Great Britain by Creative Print and Design (Wales), Ebbw Vale For George and Perdita Contents Acknowledgements ix General Editors’ Preface xi Introduction: Alison Thorne 1 1. Shakespearean Comedy and Romance: the Utopian Imagination Kiernan Ryan 27 2. Periclesand the Pox Margaret Healy 53 3. Liminal Geography: Periclesand the Politics of Place Constance C. Relihan 71 4. Cymbeline: the Rescue of the King Ruth Nevo 91 5. The Masculine Romance of Roman Britain: Cymbeline and Early Modern English Nationalism Jodi Mikalachki 117 6. Masculine Authority and the Maternal Body in The Winter’s Tale Janet Adelman 145 7. The Winter’s Tale and the Religious Politics of Europe James Ellison 171 8. Caliban versus Miranda: Race and Gender Conflicts in Postcolonial Rewritings of The Tempest Jyotsna G. Singh 205 vii viii CONTENTS 9. ‘The Duke of Milan / and his Brave Son’: Old Histories and New in The Tempest David Scott Kastan 226 Further Reading 245 Notes on Contributors 250 Index 252 Acknowledgements Thanks to John Drakakis, Helen Hackett, Robert Maslen and Jennifer Richards for their helpful comments on an earlier draft of the introduction, to James Knowles for sharing his knowledge of Jacobean stage practices with me, and, above all, to Martin Coyle whose unfailing patience and encouragement ensured the completion of this volume. The editor and publisher wish to thank the following for permission to use copyright material: Janet Adelman, for material from Suffocating Mothers: Fantasies of Maternal Origin in Shakespeare’s Plays, ‘Hamlet’ to ‘The Tempest’ by Janet Adelman (1992), pp. 193–235, by permission of Routledge, Inc, part of the Taylor & Francis Group; James Ellison, for ‘The Winter’s Tale and the Religious Politics of Europe’, previ- ously unpublished, by permission of the author; Margaret Healy, for ‘Pericles and the Pox’ from Jennifer Richards and James Knowles (eds), Shakespeare’s Late Plays: New Readings, Edinburgh University Press (1999), pp. 92–107, by permission of the author; David Scott Kastan, for material from Shakespeare After Theory by David Scott Kastan (1999), pp. 183–97, by permission of Routledge, Inc, part of the Taylor & Francis Group; Jodi Mikalachki, for ‘The Masculine Romance of Roman Britain: Cymbeline and Early Modern English Nationalism’, Shakespeare Quarterly, 46:3 (1995), 301–22, by permission of the Johns Hopkins University Press; Ruth Nevo, for material from Shakespeare’s Other Language by Ruth Nevo, Routledge (1987), pp. 62–94, by permission of Routledge, Inc, part of the Taylor & Francis Group; Constance C. Relihan, for ‘Liminal Geography: Pericles and the Politics of Place’, Philological Quarterly, 71 ix

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This New Casebook offers a collection of the liveliest and most innovative contemporary criticism on Shakespeare's "Romances": Pericles, Cymbeline, The Winter's Tale, and The Tempest. The essays gathered in this volume exemplify the current diversity in critical practice and cover a broad range of t
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