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The English Novel in the Time of Shakespeare

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This study traces the development of English prose fiction around the age of the leading dramatist, surveying medieval romances, the effects of the Norman conquest, Caxton’s printing, and French and Italian models. It reconstructs short-story and novel forms by examining early translations, ephemeral pamphlets, and rare library holdings, and profiles lesser-known tale-writers such as Greene, Nash, and Lodge alongside dramatists and pamphleteers. Chapters analyze changing fashions, illustrative engravings, and how episodic romances and continental imports supplied raw materials and narrative techniques later adapted by dramatists and novelists.

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Transcriber's Notes

Page 2: Shakesperean amended to Shakespearean

Page 55: marvaylous sic ("marvayllous" in the excerpt in footnote 22)

Page 129: Duplicate "and" let as is ("... seeme thou carelesse, and and then will she be carefull").

Page 317: pourtraying amended to portraying

Page 424: The index reference to Dekker's portrait has been amended from page 19 to page 333.

Footnote 68: "conscience' sake" sic

Footnote 310: "Bouvart et Pecuchet" sic

Generally punctuation has been standardised, with the exception of punctuation in the Index. Hyphenation has generally been standardised. However, when a word appears hyphenated and unhyphenated an equal number of times, both versions have been retained (bonheur/bon-heur; nowadays/now-a-days; playhouse/play-house; re-baptized/rebaptized; some-how/somehow).

Accented letters have generally been standardized, unless different versions of the word appear an equal number of times (Céladon/Celadon; Heptaméron/Heptameron).