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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Structure and Experience in Shakespeare's Romances Robert W. Uphaus. CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix ONE: Beyond Tragedy 1 Two: Tragedy and the Intimations of Romance 12 THREE: Pericles and the Conventions of Romance 34 Four: Cymbeline and ...
Structure and Experience in Shakespeare's Romances Robert W. Uphaus. But the question which too few askis, what kind of emotional response were the Romances designed to arouse? Has not the “delight” of romance been rather neglected ...
Structure and Experience in Shakespeare's Romances Robert W. Uphaus. different realm of human experience, a prelude ... romance, there are three which strike me as being most suggestive in their understanding of how romance incorporates ...
Structure and Experience in Shakespeare's Romances Robert W. Uphaus. sphere of non-human accident, chance, or ... romance—that is, its capacity to absorb diverse experiences as well as diverse genres—Frank Kermode focuses on the fragility ...
... romances pastoral serves as a crucial transition or stage between a prior tragedy and the subsequent experience of romance. If the use of pastoral in Shakespeare's comedies contributes to the principle “through release to clarification ...
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1 | |
12 | |
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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