Table of Contents

Introduction 1: Romance, irony, and humanism 2: Pericles and the idea of the hero 3: Court 4: Country 5: Magnetic Island and Islander in The Tempest 6: Violence and Freedom 7: Women and Romance 8: Endings Abbreviations Selected Primary References Selected Secondary References

About the Author

Simon Palfrey is Lecturer in English and the History of Ideas at the University of Melbourne.

Reviews

presents valuable insights into the undercurrent of turbulence and discord that informs these romantic plays - R.H. Peake, formerly of the University of Virginia, Choice, Vol 35, No. 10, June '98