Provider: World Shakespeare Bibliography https://www.worldshakesbib.org Database: WSB Content: text/plain; charset="utf-8" TY - THES SP - not paginated ID - bbbc23 T1 - "Governing Romance in Seventeenth-Century England" AU - Jacobs, Nicole A PY - 2013 DA - 2026 KW - romance KW - politics LA - English AB - Traces the relationship between the romance genre and seventeenth-century politics. Hypothesizes two types of romance, the diagnostic, which critiques the conflict between society and government, and the prescriptive, which offers strategies for combating political injustice. Devotes one chapter to Pericles and Winter's Tale, exploring Shakespeare's "politics of romance." ER -