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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... patience.” Where Danby emphasizes the inclusiveness of romance—that is, its capacity to absorb diverse experiences as well as diverse genres—Frank Kermode focuses on the fragility and selectivity of romance. He defines romance as “a ...
... patience, charity, chastity, faith, and truth. This is not to deny the identity of the characters as people, however; many of the romances, as C. L. Barber has noted, involve “the transition of persons into virtually sacred figures who ...
... patience, / I will say nothing” (III.ii.37-38). The “pattern of all patience,” in Shakespeare's romances, signifies a kind of resignation to, and exhaustion of, tragedy which precedes the entry of a realm of experience beyond tragedy ...
... patience. The “extreme verge,” to which Edgar refers (IV.vi.26), is not only the cliff but the separation between the absolute close of tragedy and an entrance into a realm of recovery beyond tragedy. Thus when Gloucester “jumps,” Edgar ...
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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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