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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... Cleopatra immediately precede Shakespeare's romances. What makes these plays, as well as their chronological position, extremely interesting is that compared to, say, Hamlet and Othello, these plays have frequently been thought of as ...
... Cleopatra, defined against Macbeth, introduce elements which intimate the idea of Shakespearean romance and, just as important, define that idea against the structure and experience of tragedy. By looking at three of the late tragedies ...
... Cleopatra systematically displays an alternative to its tragic action. In a sense Antony and Cleopatra has it both ways—tragedy and tentative romance—and this is what makes the play at best a problematical tragedy. As many people have ...
... Cleopatra conduct a tug of war between tragedy and romance. Toward the end of Act II, Caesar and Antony are on board ... Cleopatra's and Caesar's understanding of time never wavers. Adopting the Alexandrian view, Antony says to Cleopatra ...
... Cleopatra asserts a similar view when she tries to keep Antony from returning to Rome: When you sued staying, Then was the time for words; no going then; Eternity was in our lips and eyes, Bliss in our brows' bent, none our parts so ...
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