ABSTRACT
Wroth’s handling of the complex narrative structures of the Urania crucially informs the reading process and contributes towards forming the text’s readers. The same is true for the content with which Wroth fills the structured proliferation of narrative strands and inset tales. Just as the frontispiece features triple gardens, towers and statues, the romance is marked by recurring themes and plots, both on the level of the main narrative and on the level of inset tales which support and contrast with developments of the main narrative. Hence, Wroth continues the strategy of multiplication that is so striking with regard to the text’s narrative structures on the content level and inscribes a process of reflection and debate within the text through a practice of repetition and variation.
