Includes bibliographical references (pages 216-229) and index.
Contents
Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations and a note on the text -- Introduction -- 1. The readership of Renaissance romance -- 2. Renaissance romance and modern romance -- 3. Novellas of the 1560s and 1570s -- 4. Spanish and Portuguese romances -- 5. Fictions addressed to women by Lyly, Rich and Greene -- 6. The Arcadia: readership and authorship -- 7. The Arcadia: heroines -- 8. The Faerie Queene -- 9. Shakespeare's romance sources -- 10. Lady Mary Wroth's Urania -- Epilogue: the later seventeenth century -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.