Contents

Preface

A Note on Texts, Editions, and Critical Traditions

1  Myth, Music, and Lyric

2  An Elegy for Ariel

3  Poetry and Performance in The Winter’s Tale

4  Pageantry, Power, and Lyricism in Henry VIII

5  Aesthetic Judgment and the Audience in Cymbeline

Epilogue: Lyric Recognition and the Editorial Romance in Pericles and The Two Noble Kinsmen

Acknowledgments

Notes

Index