"There is a compelling story to be told about the rise, fall, and transfiguration of the ideal of chastity, and Lisabeth During is the perfect person to tell it

"In this study, Lois E. Bueler examines in broad literary historical terms what she calls the Tested Woman Plot, a "story-machine" that originated in the ancien

This is the first book to provide a full treatment of Shakespeare's literary and theatrical engagement with the Italian novella and female agency.