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  • The pastoral romance heroine in English Renaissance literature
  • The Arcadian prison: chastity and the defense of the princesses in Sidney's two Arcadias
  • Spenser's romance heroines: the heroic and the pastoral in books 3 and 6 of The fairie queene
  • Growing out of pastoral: Wroth's Urania and the female pastoral career
  • Fletcher's Clorin and Milton's lady: the performance of chastity in pastoral drama
  • Milton's Eve and Marvell's Maria Fairfax: wives and daughters in the pastoral family circle.