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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... action of magical and moral laws in a version of human life so selective as to obscure, for the special purpose of concentrating attention on these laws, the fact that in reality their force is intermittent and only fitfully glimpsed ...
... action of the play displays the protagonist in a “boundary situation,” or as Richard Sewall says, “man at the limits of his sovereignty.” Second, this tragic action gives rise to a tension between what Maud Bodkin calls the vying ...
... though both men die, but opposites. But the play itself, with Macbeth as its center, deals only with the compressed time of tragedy, where every action Macbeth initiates in the present is done in anticipation of, and defined.
... action, built on Macbeth's attempts to possess and destroy “all,” dramatizes the compressed, irreversible time of tragedy which moves toward an absolute close, at the same moment that it intimates what Banquo experiences, in an expanded ...
... action is defined against the witches' equivocal prophecy, and the diverse fates of the characters play on diverse understandings of time. That is, the short run of Macbeth's death, with which the play is primarily concerned, defines ...
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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 |