Romance on the Early Modern Stage English Expansion Before and After
What is dramatic romance? Scholars have long turned to Shakespeare's biography to answer this question, marking his 'late plays' as the beginning and end of the dramatic romance. This book identifies an earlier history for this genre, revealing how stage
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Romance on the Early Modern Stage English Expansion Before and After Shakespeare Cyrus Mulready State University of New York at New Paltz, USA
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Contents List of Illustrations
viii
Acknowledgements
ix
Introduction: Romance and the Globe
1
1 Romancing Shakespeare
33
2 “Asia of the one side, and Afric of the other”: Sidney’s Unities and the Staging of Romance
52
3 Imagined Empires: The Cultural Geography of Stage Romance
78
4 Chronicle History, Cosmopolitan Romance: Henry V and the Generic Boundaries of the Second Tetralogy
108
5 Containing Romance and Plotting Empire in The Tempest and Pericles
143
6 Milton’s Imperial Maske: Staging Romance on the Border of Wales
172
Coda: Global Romance after Shakespeare
193
Appendix: Titles and Dates of Stage Romances
200
Notes
204
Bibliography
224
Index
243
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List of Illustrations 0.1
0.2 2.1
5.1
Detail from Gerard Mercator’s 1569 Wall Map, Sig. Kartenslg. AA 3–5; reproduced by permission of the University of Basel
4
Frontispiece to Historia Mundi: or Mercator’s Atlas (1635); by permission of the Folger Shakespeare Library
8
Woodcut from The Hystor
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