Book contents
- Gathering Force: Early Modern British Literature in Transition, 1557-1623
- Early Modern British Literature in Transition, 1557–1714
- Gathering Force: Early Modern British Literature in Transition, 1557–1623
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Generic Transitions
- Chapter 1 The English Sonnet: Cycles and Recycling
- Chapter 2 Romance: Traditions and Innovations
- Chapter 3 Drama: Forming an Audience
- Chapter 4 Pageants, Masques, and Entertainments: Old Rituals, New Forms
- Chapter 5 Arts of Rhetoric: Antique and Modern
- Part II Literature and Ideological Transformation
- Part III Literature and Cultural Transformation
- Part IV Literature and Local Transformation
- Index
- References
Chapter 2 - Romance: Traditions and Innovations
from Part I - Generic Transitions
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 January 2019
Book contents
- Gathering Force: Early Modern British Literature in Transition, 1557-1623
- Early Modern British Literature in Transition, 1557–1714
- Gathering Force: Early Modern British Literature in Transition, 1557–1623
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Generic Transitions
- Chapter 1 The English Sonnet: Cycles and Recycling
- Chapter 2 Romance: Traditions and Innovations
- Chapter 3 Drama: Forming an Audience
- Chapter 4 Pageants, Masques, and Entertainments: Old Rituals, New Forms
- Chapter 5 Arts of Rhetoric: Antique and Modern
- Part II Literature and Ideological Transformation
- Part III Literature and Cultural Transformation
- Part IV Literature and Local Transformation
- Index
- References
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019
References
Further Reading
Borris, Kenneth, Allegory and Epic in English Renaissance Literature: Heroic Form in Sidney, Spenser, and Milton (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000).Google Scholar
Cooper, Helen, The English Romance in Time: Transforming Motifs from Geoffrey of Monmouth to the Death of Shakespeare (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004).Google Scholar
Fowler, Alastair, Kinds of Literature: An Introduction to the Theory of Genres and Modes (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1982).Google Scholar
Salzman, Paul, English Prose Fiction, 1558–1700: A Critical History (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1985).Google Scholar