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Reading popular romance in early modern England / Lori Humphrey Newcomb.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Furness Shakespeare Library (Van Pelt 628) PR2544.P33 N49 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Newcomb, Lori Humphrey.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Greene, Robert, 1558-1592. Pandosto.
- Greene, Robert.
- Greene, Robert, 1558-1592.
- Books and reading--England--History--16th century.
- Books and reading.
- Popular culture.
- History.
- England.
- Books and reading--England--History--17th century.
- Popular literature--England--History and criticism.
- Popular literature.
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Winter's tale.
- Shakespeare, William.
- Romances--Appreciation--England--History.
- Romances.
- Romances--Appreciation.
- Greene, Robert, 1558-1592--Influence.
- Popular culture--England--History.
- Household employees in literature.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 332 pages : illustrations, facsimiles ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Columbia University Press, [2002]
- Summary:
- With the expansion of the publishing industry between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries, reading for pleasure became possible for an increasing number of people, not just the wealthy and educated. The growth of the book trade produced, alongside elite literature, a parallel popular literature. Lori Humphrey Newcomb examines the proliferation of romances in early modern England, as well as their vilification by elite writers. Using as her case study Robert Greene's "Pandosto" (1585), an Elizabethan prose romance that inspired Shakespeare's late play, "The Winter's Tale," she shows that the two forms of literature influenced each other profoundly.
- Because Shakespeare's works are considered timeless literary achievements, critics have distanced his plays from his romantic sources -- a separation that until now has gone unquestioned. Newcomb undermines this assumption, providing a fascinating account of an early bestseller's incarnations over 250 years of literary history.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 "Growne so ordinarie" Producing Robert Greene's Pandosto and Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia, 1585-92 21
- Chapter 2 Social Things: Commodifying Pandosto, 1592-1640 77
- Chapter 3 Material Alteration: Re-commodifying Dorastus and Fawnia and The Winter's Tale, 1623-1843 131
- Chapter 4 The Romance of Service: The Readers of Dorastus and Fawnia, 1615-1762 209
- Appendix A Pandosto Prose Versions 262
- Appendix B Pandosto Verse Versions 264.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-316) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0231123787
- 0231123795
- OCLC:
- 45828151
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