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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... diverse experiences as well as diverse genres—Frank Kermode focuses on the fragility and selectivity of romance. He defines romance as “a mode of exhibiting the action of magical and moral laws in a version of human life so selective as ...
... conscious or unconscious, about what constitutes reality, both in fact and in drama. Shakespeare's diverse uses of tragedy, comedy, and history generally abide by our ordinary sense of reality. I say “generally,” BEYONDTRAGEDY 9.
... diverse ways through which the romances project a realm of human and dramatic experience beyond tragedy, even as they draw from Shakespeare's prior tragedies to enact such a unique experience. TWO Tragedy and the Intimations of Romance ...
... diverse understandings of tragic, irreversible time, and nontragic, reversible time. Banquo's individual fate is, in the short run, lesser and not so happy as Macbeth's; while in the long run it is greater and much happier because ...
... diverse fates of the characters play on diverse understandings of time. That is, the short run of Macbeth's death, with which the play is primarily concerned, defines the longer run of Banquo's destiny which, though only intimated ...
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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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