Fictions of Authorship in Late Elizabethan Narratives: Euphues in Arcadia (review)
contradictions. But the major themes are worth the pondering, for the forces involved in the shaping of prose fiction of those volatile decades were themselves multiple and contradictory. In sum, this book is a valiant production, full of interesting detail, arresting in its novelty, comprehensive in the scope of the background reading, and worth the consideration of all students of early prose fiction. One can only hope that in making a contribution to the growing number of critical studies on the Lyly-toNashe axis, the axis itself will continue to gain in status among students of Renaissance literature. DONALD BEECHER Carleton University