ALISON THORNE teaches in the Department of English Studies at the University of Strathclyde.

'This volume brings together some of the best work of recent years on the so-called romances. Its editor, who is herself the author of a ground-breaking study of perspective in Shakespeare, prefaces the collection with a shrewd essay on the complexities of romance as a genre. Her essay and its survey of the critical field afford one of the most perceptive introductions to the topic so far. Like the best of her contributors, Thorne strikes a fine balance between theory and more traditional approaches to the field. An excellent collection and well worth owning.' - Professor R Weis, University College, University of London

• Introduction; A.ThorneShakespearean Comedy and Romance: The Utopian Imagination; K.RyanPericles and the Pox; M.HealyLiminal Geography: Pericles and the Politics of Place; C.C.RelihanCymbeline and the Rescue of the King; R.NevoThe Masculine Romance of Roman Britain: Cymbeline and Early Modern English Nationalism; J.MikalachkiMasculine Authority and the Maternal Body in The Winter's Tale; J.AdelmanThe Winter's Tale and the Religious Politics of Europe; J.EllisonCaliban versus Miranda: Race and Gender Conflicts in Postcolonial Rewritings of The Tempest; J.G.Singh'The Duke of Milan/And His Brave Son': Old Histories and New in The Tempest; D.S.KastanFurther ReadingNotes on ContributorsIndex.