R. S. White is Australian Professorial Fellow, Emeritus Winthrop Professor of English at The University of Western Australia, and Chief Investigator in the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions 1100-1800. Among his other books are Natural Law in English Renaissance Literature (1996), Natural Rights and the Birth of Romanticism in the 1790s (2008), Pacifism in English Poetry: Minstrels of Peace (2008) and John Keats: A Literary Life (2010) which has been reissued in paperback. He is a past President of the Australian and New Zealand Shakespeare Association and a Fellow of the Australian Humanities Academy.

• Preface 1. The sense of an ending in Elizabethan romance 2. The sense of an ending in early Elizabethan romantic comedy 3. Shakespeare's mature romantic comedies 4. The ‘problem' comedies 5. Romance in the Tragedies 6. Shakespeare's romances: Pericles, Cymbeline, The Winter's Tale 7. The Tempest Conclusion Appendix: Elizabethan romance and stage comedy - historical survey Notes Index

R. S. White is Australian Professorial Fellow, Emeritus Winthrop Professor of English at The University of Western Australia, and Chief Investigator in the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions 1100-1800. Among his other books are Natural Law in English Renaissance Literature (1996), Natural Rights and the Birth of Romanticism in the 1790s (2008), Pacifism in English Poetry: Minstrels of Peace (2008) and John Keats: A Literary Life (2010) which has been reissued in paperback. He is a past President of the Australian and New Zealand Shakespeare Association and a Fellow of the Australian Humanities Academy.

• Preface 1. The sense of an ending in Elizabethan romance 2. The sense of an ending in early Elizabethan romantic comedy 3. Shakespeare's mature romantic comedies 4. The ‘problem' comedies 5. Romance in the Tragedies 6. Shakespeare's romances: Pericles, Cymbeline, The Winter's Tale 7. The Tempest Conclusion Appendix: Elizabethan romance and stage comedy - historical survey Notes Index