The English Romance in Time Transforming Motifs from Geoffrey of Monmouth to the Death of Shakespeare

by Helen Cooper

Book Overview

The English Romance in Time is a study of English romance across the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. It explores romance motifs - quests and fairy mistresses, passionate heroines and rudderless boats and missing heirs - from the first emergence of the genre in French and Anglo-Norman in the twelfth century down to the early seventeenth. This is a continuous story, since the same romances that constituted the largest and most sophisticated body of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199532583
• ISBN13: 9780199532582
• Release Date: April 2008
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 560 Pages
• Weight: 1.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"