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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... argue that in at least five fundamental ways Shakespeare's romances represent and enact a realm of human experience which ... argues that tragedy deals with “'boundary situations,' man at the limits of his sovereignty,” or that tragedy ...
... argues that “the archetypal pattern corresponding to tragedy may be said to be a certain organization of the tendencies of self-assertion and submission. The self which is asserted is magnified by that same collective force to which ...
... argues that Shakespeare's last plays “develop the final phase of the tragic pattern,” G. Wilson Knight, who associates the final plays with a “beyond tragedy recognition,” and Howard Felperin, who more recently has argued that ...
... argues, again suggesting the exhaustion of tragedy, that “the great rage, / You see, is killed in him” (78-79), and Lear's last words to Cordelia, before he leaves, seem to confirm their survival of tragedy: “Pray you now forget, and ...
... argues that he and Cordelia are free of a tragic world and thereby endowed with a kind of divine awareness. They are, he declares, above it all, the inhabitants of a realm beyond tragedy: We two alone will sing like birds i' th' cage ...
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