Beyond Tragedy: Structure and Experience in Shakespeare's RomancesUniversity Press of Kentucky, 21.10.2021 - 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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... , the affirmation of value through tragic negation, the use of irreversible time, and the turn toward an absolute close—and apply them to this play, we see that Antony is the stage, so to say, on which Caesar and Cleopatra conduct a tug of.
... Caesar and Antony are on board Pompey's galley, and Pompey, as well as Antony, is anxious to turn the gathering into a drunken Alexandrian feast. Caesar, however, objects to the revelry, and in response to Antony's suggestion that he ...
... Caesar's present desires for worldly possession. The Roman view of time, not surprisingly, is precisely the opposite of Alexandrian expectations. Its claims are wholly public; its values continually refer to public service, power, and ...
... Caesar's condemnation of Antony, and hence of Alexandrian time, is absolute: yet must Antony No way excuse his foils, when we do bear So great weight in his lightness. If he fill'd His vacancy with his voluptuousness, Full surfeits and ...
Structure and Experience in Shakespeare's Romances Robert W. Uphaus. irresponsible pleasures, Caesar says, “Yet must Antony / No way excuse his foils when we do bear / So great weight in his lightness.” But where Caesar bears the heavy ...
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