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Staging Early Modern Romance Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture 1. Stillness in Motion in the 8. Fictions of Old Age in Early Seventeenth-Century Theatre Modern Literature and Culture P.A. Skantze Nina Tauton 2. The Popular Culture of 9. Performing Race and Torture on Shakespeare, Spenser and Jonson the Early Modern Stage Mary Ellen Lamb Ayanna Thompson 3. Forgetting in Early Modern 10. Women, Murder, and Equity in English Literature and Culture Early Modern England Lethe’s Legacies Randall Martin Edited by Christopher Ivic and Grant Williams 11. Staging Early Modern Romance Prose Fiction, Dramatic Romance, 4. Luce Irigaray and and Shakespeare Premodern Culture Edited by Mary Ellen Lamb Thresholds of History and Valerie Wayne Edited by Theresa Krier and Elizabeth D. Harvey 5. Writing, Geometry and Space in Seventeenth-Century England and America Circles in the Sand Jess Edwards 6. Dramatists and their Manuscripts in the Age of Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton and Heywood Authorship, Authority and the Playhouse Grace Ioppolo 7. Reading the Early Modern Dream The Terrors of the Night Edited by Katharine Hodgkin, Michelle O’ Callaghan, and S. J. Wiseman Staging Early Modern Romance Prose Fiction, Dramatic Romance, and Shakespeare Edited by Mary Ellen Lamb and Valerie Wayne New York London First published 2009 by Routledge 270 Madison Ave, New York, NY 10016 Simultaneously published in the UK by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2008. “To purchase your own copy of this or any of Taylor & Francis or Routledge’s collection of thousands of eBooks please go to www.eBookstore.tandf.co.uk.” © 2009 Taylor & Francis All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereaf- ter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark Notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trade- marks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Staging early modern romance : prose fiction, dramatic romance, and Shakespeare / edited by Mary Ellen Lamb and Valerie Wayne. p. cm.—(Routledge studies in Renaissance literature and culture ; 11) Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. English drama—Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500–1600—History and criticism. 2. English prose literature—Early modern, 1500–1700—History and criticism. 3. Romances, English—Adaptations—History and criticism. 4. Romances— Adaptations—History and criticism. 5. Romanticism—England—History—16th century. 6. Shakespeare, William, 1564–1616—Sources. 7. Shakespeare, William, 1564–1616—Knowledge—Literature. I. Lamb, Mary Ellen, 1946– II. Wayne, Valerie. PR658.R65S73 2009 820.9'003—dc22 2008035566 ISBN 0-203-88207-5 Master e-book ISBN ISBN10: 0-415-96281-1 (hbk) ISBN10: 0-203-88207-5 (ebk) ISBN13: 978-0-415-96281-0 (hbk) ISBN13: 978-0-203-88207-8 (ebk) This book is for our grandchildren, Venice and Keala. Contents Acknowledgments ix Part I: Continuities and Incongruities 1 Introduction: Into the Forest 1 MARY ELLEN LAMB AND VALERIE WAYNE 2 The Sources of Romance, the Generation of Story, and the Patterns of the Pericles Tales 21 LORI HUMPHREY NEWCOMB 3 “Asia of the One Side, and Afric of the Other”: Sidney’s Unities and the Staging of Romance 47 CYRUS MULREADY Part II: Page and Stage 4 “A Note Beyond Your Reach”: Prose Romance’s Rivalry with Elizabethan Drama 75 STEVE MENTZ 5 Hamlet and Euordanus 91 GORAN STANIVUKOVIC 6 Reading the Book of the Self in Shakespeare’s Cymbeline and Wroth’s Urania 107 SARAH WALL-RANDELL viii Contents 7 Virtual Audiences and Virtual Authors: The Winter’s Tale, The Tempest, and Old Wives’ Tales 122 MARY ELLEN LAMB Part III: Gender and Agency 8 The Issue of the Corpus Christi Cycles, or “Religious Romance,” in The Winter’s Tale 145 GLORIA OLCHOWY 9 Romancing the Wager: Cymbeline’s Intertexts 163 VALERIE WAYNE 10 John Fletcher’s Women Pleased and the Pedagogy of Reading Romance 188 JOYCE BORO 11 Undoing Romance: Beaumont and Fletcher’s Resistant Reading of The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia 203 CLARE R. KINNEY 12 Probable Infi delities from Bandello to Massinger 219 LORNA HUTSON 13 Afterword: Shakespeare and Romance 236 BARBARA A. MOWAT Contributors 247 Index 251 Acknowledgments This book fi rst began as a seminar on “Women and Romance” that we cochaired at the meetings of the Shakespeare Association of America in New Orleans in 2004. The participants included Jean R. Brink, Chris- topher Cobb, Julie Crawford, Huston Diehl, Michelle Dowd, Susan Dunn-Hensley, Susan Frye, Clare Kinney, Alan Lewis, Steve Mentz, Lori Humphrey Newcomb, Gloria Olchowy, Patricia Parker, Constance Reli- han, Sasha Roberts, and Edith Snook. We are grateful to all of them for their stimulating papers and productive discussion, which helped us see how we might pursue this subject further through a collection of essays. We want especially to remember the late Sasha Roberts, a vital member of that seminar, whose energetic presence and provocative work in the fi eld of romance we will sorely miss. Our thanks go to Patricia Parker for her early and strong encouragement of this project. The scholarship of Barbara Mowat has always been formative for this collection, and we are grateful for her expertise and clarifying support as we completed it. Mary Ellen Lamb would like to thank Arthur Kinney and the Massa- chusetts Center for Renaissance Studies, where she was a fellow in 2006– 07, for resources enabling her work on this project. She would also like to thank Southern Illinois University for her research leave in 2006–07 as well as other forms of support. She also thanks her husband, Bill, for their many long walks, during which he gave generous attention to her ideas about romance and many other topics. Valerie Wayne is grateful to the Folger Shakespeare Library for its extraordinary resources and accomplished staff, who supported her work on Cymbeline during a long-term fellowship in 2003 and provided welcome assistance on this book during subsequent summers. Georgianna Ziegler’s expertise has been crucial. She especially thanks her husband, Richard, whose energetic engagement with the incongruities of Cymbeline and the mode of romance speaks volumes of care. Both of us became grandmothers during the last year of working on this book, which may mean that we are “old wives” with tales of our own to tell. As our dedication suggests, we cherish our children and the children they nurture so well.

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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 Shakespeare’s late plays. Although Pericles, Cymbeline
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