Staging Early Modern Romance
Staging Early Modern Romance

Author: Mary Ellen Lamb

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2009-01-13

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 1135895252

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This collection recovers the continuities between two modes of romance that have long been separated from one another in critical discourse: the prose fictions that early moderns often referred to as romances, and Shakespeare's late plays, which have often been termed 'romances' since Dowden.

Early Dramas and Romances (Classic Reprint)
Early Dramas and Romances (Classic Reprint)

Author: Friedrich Schiller

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-01-19

Total Pages: 514

ISBN-13: 9780332089515

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Excerpt from Early Dramas and Romances Speaking of this drama, a distinguished critic says, As a. Tragedy 02 common life we know of few rivals to it, certainly of no superior. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Shakespearean Romance
Shakespearean Romance

Author: Howard Felperin

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2015-03-08

Total Pages: 333

ISBN-13: 1400868300

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If Shakespeare's last plays—Pericles, Cymbeline, The Winter's Tale, The Tempest, and Henry VIII—are to be neither debunked nor idealized but taken seriously on their own terms, they must be examined within the traditions and conventions of romance. Howard Felperin defines this relatively neglected literary mode and locates these plays within it. But, as he shows, romance was not simply an established genre in which Shakespeare worked at both the beginning and end of his career but a mode of perceiving the world that pervades and shapes his entire work. The last plays are examined to answer such questions as: How does Shakespeare raise to a higher power the conventions of romance available to him, particularly those of the native medieval drama? How does he bring us to accept these elements of romance? Above all, how does romance, the mode in which the imagination enjoys its freest expression, become the vehicle, not of beautiful, escapist fantasy but of moral truth? Originally published in 1972. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.