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Erotic suffering in Shakespeare and Sidney : a central theme in Elizabethan and Jacobean romance / Darlene Ciraulo ; with a foreword by Christy Desmet.

Bibliography, etc. note: Includes bibliographical references and index. Formatted contents note: Erotic suffering: Greek romance in early modern contexts -- Erotic suffering and female heroism in Sidney's New Arcadia -- Sexual symmetry and erotic suffering in Shakespeare's Pericles -- Child abandonment and female suffering in Shakespeare's the Winter's tale -- The comedy of erotic suffering: Imogen in Shakespeare's Cymbeline.