| Introduction | |
| Greco--Roman Romance in the Renaissance: The Nature of Erotic Romance | |
| Greco--Roman Romance of the Second Sophistic and the Renaissance | |
| Aphthonius, Philostratus, Ecphrasis and Artistic Style | |
| Characterisation- Theophrastus and Plutarch | |
| Philhellenism and the Allegorical Politicisation of Erotic Romance | |
| LongusâÇÖs Daphnis and Chloe | |
| The Novel as Ecphrasis; Amyot, Translation and the Kings of France | |
| Reading, Education and Translation | |
| Translating Erotic Romance | |
| Angel Day, The Shepheards Holidaie and Accession Day, 1587 | |
| The Shepheards Holidaie, Court Drama, and Court Poets | |
| Translating Eros: Amyot, Day and Thornley | |
| George ThornleyâÇÖs Itch | |
| Angel Day and DionysophanesâÇÖ Garden | |
| The End: Nothing But ShepherdsâÇÖ Games | |
| Conclusion | |
| Achilles TatiusâÇÖs Leukippe and Kleitophon | |
| Rhetorics of Love | |
| European Dissemination | |
| BelleforestâÇÖs French | |
| Burton and the English Philhellenes | |
| Hodges, Erotic Arousal and SidneyâÇÖs Arcadia | |
| Translating the Opening | |
| Europa- An Ecphrasis | |
| Europa and Apparent Cyclic Form | |
| Kleitophon and Characterisation | |
| KleitophonâÇÖs Symbolic Dream | |
| Kleinias on Love, Sex and Marriage | |
| KleitophonâÇÖs Garden; PantheiaâÇÖs Dream | |
| Debate on Erotic Love | |
| Sexual Predation | |
| Melite and Thersandros | |
| The Trial and Conclusion | |
| Conclusion | |
| 4 HeliodorusâÇÖs An Ethiopian Story - Theagenes and Charikleia | |
| Charikliea: Royal Foundling | |
| Renaissance Continental Translations and Philhellene Politics | |
| SandfordâÇÖs Historie of Chariclia and Theagenes | |
| UnderdowneâÇÖs An Aethiopian Historie; Fraunce, LâÇÖIsle and Gough | |
| Exemplary Characters and Moral Lessons; HeliodorusâÇÖs Political Romance | |
| Homeric Beginnings | |
| The Insatiable Demainete | |
| ThyamisâÇÖs Erotic Dream | |
| ThyamisâÇÖs Priestly Family | |
| Rhodopis: KalasirisâÇÖs Nightmare | |
| HeliodorusâÇÖs Cyclic Tales | |
| Leadership and the Law; Thyamis Justified | |
| The Wanton Arsake | |
| The Wicked Kybele | |
| Recognising Charikleia | |
| Language and Nationalism | |
| LâÇÖIsle's Political Panegyric | |
| Conclusion | |
| Philhellene Erotic Romance: National Romance and SidneyâÇÖs Arcadia | |
| Political Outlines | |
| Selective Monarchomachia | |
| Evolution of Arcadia | |
| Unfolding the Epic Cycle | |
| Sub-Plot and Exemplary Character | |
| Philisides and Tiltyard Masquing | |
| Costume, Device, and Narrative Strategy | |
| PhilocleaâÇÖs Bed | |
| Eroticising Renaissance Romance | |
| Erotic Romance and Erotic Sex | |
| Interest Theory, Philhellene Politics, and Erotic Romance | |
| The Novel as Theatre | |
| Legal and Political Process as Drama | |
| The End of Romance | |
| Conclusion | |
| Shakespeare and Philhellene Erotic Romance | |
| Shakespeare, Amyot and NorthâÇÖs Plutarch | |
| Amyot--North Diction and Style in Coriolanus (1608) | |
| Julius Caesar (1599), Political Identifiers and the Rhetorics of Erotic Romance | |
| Antony, Cleopatra, Octavius and the Huguenots | |
| GrevilleâÇÖs Antony and Cleopatra: Politics and Anti--Romance | |
| Panegyric in Antony and Cleopatra (1606): the Rewards of Patronage | |
| The WinterâÇÖs Tale (1609--10): Exemplary Rapprochement | |
| Jealousy, Tyranny, and the Aggressive âÇ RoyalâÇÖ Style | |
| Gendering Rhetorics: Thucydides and the Ermine | |
| Erotic Closure | |
| Cymbeline (1609--10), Rhetorical Style and the Catholic Disjunction | |
| Conclusion | |
| Mary Sidney WrothâÇÖs Urania | |
| Philhellene Protestant Erotic Propaganda | |
| Disjunction at the Throne of Love | |
| A French Story | |
| The Dispossessed: UraniaâÇÖs Misery | |
| Theatres of Romance | |
| Interest Theory Personalised | |
| Techniques of Elision | |
| Allegorical Parallelism | |
| Urania as Anti--Romance | |
| The Great Cham and His Dynasty | |
| Urania as Roman Clef | |
| The Metamorphosis of Mary Sidney Herbert | |
| Truth and Illusion | |
| RodomandroâÇÖs Masque | |
| Female Abuse and Martyrdom | |
| Hereditary Succession and Restoration | |
| Liberation, Restoration and Marital Union | |
| Meriana and the Macedonian Succession | |
| Romania Allegorised | |
| Closing the Sophistic Circle | |
| Urania as Sophistic Erotic Romance | |
| Conclusion | |
| The Fate of a Genre; The Semiotics of Erotic Romance | |
| Conclusion | |
| Bibliography | |
| Index of Place--Names | |
| General Index | |
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