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PUBLISHING PRIVATE PLEASURES: THE GENTLEWOMAN READER OF BARNABY RICHE AND GEORGE PETTIE

PUBLISHING PRIVATE PLEASURES: THE GENTLEWOMAN READER OF BARNABY RICHE AND GEORGE PETTIE PuBLI§HJ[NG JPruvA TE PLEA§URE§~ THE GENTLEWOMAN READER OF BARNABY RICHE AND GEORGE PETTIE JANE COLLINS IN 1576, GEORGE PETTIE'S A Petite Pallace of Pettie His Pleasure arrived in London bookstalls; it was so popular that another edition came out the following year, with four more editions printed by 1613. 1 Barnaby Riche's Farewell to Military Profession, published in 1581, was slightly less successful than the Petite Pallace but was still exceedingly popular, with four editions in twenty-five years. 2 Pettie and Riche had found a strategy for making prose romance tales desirable to a larger, more diverse reading public: their tales were heavily moralized; the sexuality of female characters upheld the sanctity of the marriage bond; and the love portrayed within the tales they chose to translate and collect was primarily romantic love. This strategy signals a change from the prose romance tales published by earlier writers, such as Geoffrey Fenton's 1567 work, Certain Tragical Discourses. Whereas Fenton's tales represent a chaotic female sexuality that undermines marriage, Pettie's and Riche's tales represent a chaste female sexuality that supports marriage. These changes likely made the prose romance tale more popular with non-aristocratic audiences, for whom marriage had long been http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Explorations in Renaissance Culture Brill

PUBLISHING PRIVATE PLEASURES: THE GENTLEWOMAN READER OF BARNABY RICHE AND GEORGE PETTIE

Collins, Jane
Explorations in Renaissance Culture , Volume 29 (2): 185 – Dec 2, 2003
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© Copyright 2003 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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PuBLI§HJ[NG JPruvA TE PLEA§URE§~ THE GENTLEWOMAN READER OF BARNABY RICHE AND GEORGE PETTIE JANE COLLINS IN 1576, GEORGE PETTIE'S A Petite Pallace of Pettie His Pleasure arrived in London bookstalls; it was so popular that another edition came out the following year, with four more editions printed by 1613. 1 Barnaby Riche's Farewell to Military Profession, published in 1581, was slightly less successful than the Petite Pallace but was still exceedingly popular, with four editions in twenty-five years. 2 Pettie and Riche had found a strategy for making prose romance tales desirable to a larger, more diverse reading public: their tales were heavily moralized; the sexuality of female characters upheld the sanctity of the marriage bond; and the love portrayed within the tales they chose to translate and collect was primarily romantic love. This strategy signals a change from the prose romance tales published by earlier writers, such as Geoffrey Fenton's 1567 work, Certain Tragical Discourses. Whereas Fenton's tales represent a chaotic female sexuality that undermines marriage, Pettie's and Riche's tales represent a chaste female sexuality that supports marriage. These changes likely made the prose romance tale more popular with non-aristocratic audiences, for whom marriage had long been

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