Reading Popular Romance in Early Modern England.(Book Review)

Reading popular romance in early modern England By Lori Humphrey Newcomb New York: Columbia University Press, 2002

At the beginning of this learned, gracefully written, and substantial book, Lori Humphrey Newcomb describes the material history of Robert Greene's 1585 prose romance Pandosto, The Triumph of Time as one uncannily resembling that of its heroine, Fawnia, who, like her later incarnation as Shakespeare's Perdita, is "rejected out of unreasoning jealousy, sent to the country, forgotten by some, adopted and loved by others, renamed, attacked, and eventually recovered" (5). Pandosto's recovery occurs in Newcomb's entirely canny hands; every worthy early modern ...

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