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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... King Lear, dies into life (“we came crying hither”), even as he lives into death. The tragic conclusion of King Lear demonstrates that the meaning of the play and of human life is ultimately defined by the loss or exhaustion of the very ...
... King Lear and Antony and Cleopatra straddle two worlds: the world of tragedy as we know it from Shakespeare's prior tragedies, and a second world, beyond tragedy, which is implied in Macbeth, intimated in Act IV of King Lear, and ...
... King Lear and Coriolanus. All the disruptions of Pericles seem to flow, directly or indirectly, from this primal threat to family and social structure. The presence of incest serves as an example of a pattern that prevails in the ...
... King Lear and Antony and 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 ...
... King, Banquo asks the witches to “look into the seeds of time, / And say which grain will grow and which will not ... kings, though thou be none” (65-67). The first thing to notice.
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Beyond Tragedy: Structure & Experience in Shakespeare's Romances, Band 10 Robert W. Uphaus Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 1981 |
Beyond Tragedy: Structure and Experience in Shakespeare's Romances Robert W. Uphaus Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 2014 |