The English Romance in Time - Transforming Motifs from Geoffrey of Monmouth to the Death of Shakespeare - Paperback - 2008

An exploration of English romance across the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Helen cooper traces 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 to the early seventeenth century.
Year of publication: 2008
Pagination: 560 pages, black & white illustrations
Format: Paperback