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

Publication: Yearbook of English Studies
Publication Date: 01-JAN-08 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: The English Romance in Time: Transforming Motifs from Geoffrey of Monmouth to the Death of Shakespeare.(Book review)

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The English Romance in Time: Transforming Motifs from Geoffrey of Monmouth to the Death of Shakespeare. By Helen Cooper. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004. xiii + 542 pp. 83 [pounds sterling]. ISBN: 978-0-19-924886-5.

Romance is a genre that has disconcerted critics of all schools. Except in the hands of writers like Chaucer, Spenser, and Shakespeare, the language seems rarely complex, lyrical, or dramatic enough to invite an illuminating close analysis, and even in the exceptional writers the linguistic does not seem the level that truly matters. Helen Cooper takes on a difficult task in...

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