Beyond Tragedy: Structure and Experience in Shakespeare's RomancesUniversity Press of Kentucky, 15.07.2014 - 160 Seiten In this compact, yet comprehensive exploration of Shakespeare's romances, Robert W. Uphaus suggests that the romances bring us to a realm of human and dramatic experience that is "beyond tragedy." The inexorable movement of tragedy toward death and a final close is absorbed in romance by a further movement in which death can lead to renewed life, characters can experience a second time of joy and peace, and the audience's conventional expectations about reality and literature are challenged and enlarged. In the late tragedies of King Lear and Antony and Cleopatra, Uphaus finds the tragic structure augmented by elements that will later contribute to the form of the romances. Turning then to the romances themselves, he sees these plays as forming a profession in which Pericles is a brilliant outline of the conventions of romance and Cymbeline is romance taken to its dramatic limits, in fact to the point of parody. Through his fresh and provocative readings of the plays we experience anew the delight of Shakespearean romance and glimpse the world of renewal at its heart. |
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... III.ii into the realm of romance, culminating with the great statue scene in V.iii which incorporates—without repudiating—the tragic loss of the previous generation. In The Tempest Shakespeare works yet another plot version of romance ...
... iii hear the witches' prophecy that Macbeth will become Thane of Cawdor, as well as King, Banquo asks the witches to “look into the seeds of time, / And say which grain will grow and which will not” (I.iii.58-59). Banquo's question ...
... (III.ii.6-7) alludes to the difference between the expansive view of nontragic time, and the shorter, compressed view of tragic time. Thus the respective fates of Macbeth and Banquo are not duplicates, though both men die, but opposites ...
... (III.i.1-10) In Act IV Macduff, hearing of the death of his wife and children, grieves over their loss: He has no children. All my pretty ones? Did you say all? Ohell-kite! All? What, all my pretty chickens, and their dam, At one fell ...
... (III.iii.92), a period of time exempt from tragedy, but as Thane of Cawdor and King he inherits a legacy of tragic death. The earlier Thane of Cawdor, like Macbeth, was a traitor, and the King has been murdered. Indeed, one couplet at ...
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Pericles and the Conventions of Romance | 34 |
Cymbeline and the Parody of Romance | 49 |
The Issues of The Winters Tale | 69 |
Prosperos Art and the Descent of Romance | 92 |
History Romance and Henry VIII | 118 |
NOTES | 141 |
INDEX | 149 |
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Beyond Tragedy: Structure & Experience in Shakespeare's Romances, Band 10 Robert W. Uphaus Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 1981 |
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