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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... Winter's Tale, that pastoral is not simply used as a “green world,” where characters clarify and simplify the threatening complexities of an urban or court world; rather, in the romances pastoral serves as a crucial transition or stage ...
... Winter's Tale, Brian Cosgrove has noted: “Besides the idea of values in time, it is also possible to find in the play intimations of values which outstrip time. In other words, there are suggestions of a realm of transcendent value ...
... Winter's Tale also begin with kinship disruptions of enormous tragic potential—the separation of husbands and wives, fathers and daughters, fathers and sons—but these displacements again do not lead to an absolute close; rather they ...
... Winter's Tale, “It is, finally, the spectator-critic who is excluded from the center of the play, the imaginative participant who enters into it.”17 This does not mean that my approach to the romances is fated.
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