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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... awareness of the terrible loss it is to lose a life. Above all, tragedy as we know it depends on the characters' and audience's commitment to life as a supreme value. It would be impossible, at least in Western culture, to write a ...
... awareness, and many of the central characters—especially the women—are associated with the abstract virtues of patience, charity, chastity, faith, and truth. This is not to deny the identity of the characters as people, however; many of ...
... awareness in the romances is invariably prompted by the intrusion of oracles, visions, dreams, or experiences of apparent madness, where characters are lifted out of themselves and their conventional sense of time to an experience of ...
... awareness of this that has led Brian Cosgrove to remark about the effect of The Winter's Tale, “It is, finally, the spectatorcritic who is excluded from the center of the play, the imaginative participant who enters into it.” This does ...
... awareness. They are, he declares, above it all, the inhabitants of a realm beyond tragedy: We two alone will sing like birds i' th' cage; When thou dost ask me blessing, I'll kneel down And ask of thee forgiveness. So we'll live, And ...
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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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