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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... dramatic experience. Whether one argues that tragedy deals with “boundary situations,' man at the limits of his sovereignty,” or that tragedy presents a conflict between “necessity, and the reaction to necessity of self-conscious effort ...
... dramatically speaking. Death is thus the turn toward an absolute close, because death in tragedy defines life's significance at the same time that it represents the loss of life's significance. The tragic protagonist, such as King Lear ...
... dramatic effects in King Lear and Antony and Cleopatra. The second way in which Shakespeare's romances may be seen as dramatizing a realm beyond tragedy is in the assumptions common to their genre. Tragedy, as I argued earlier, is ...
... Dramatically, this movement away from human nature to great creating Nature may also be seen in the romances' drift away from psychological experience, which is distinctly realistic and individual, to archetypal patterns of human ...
... dramatic experience beyond tragedy; for Acts IV and V, through the use of pastoral comedy as well as the reversal of tragic time, modulate the genuine tragedy of Act I–III.ii into the realm of romance, culminating with the great statue ...
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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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