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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... assertion and submission. The self which is asserted is magnified by that same collective force to which finally submission is made; and from the tension of the two impulses and their reaction upon each other, under the conditions of ...
... assert the predominance and continuation of the life cycle generally, even as they limit the value of specific individual lives. This sense of continuation, which includes but does not repudiate the conventions of tragedy, is the basis ...
... assertion and submission,” in which the tragic protagonist finally submits to necessity. Third, the magnitude ... assert control over what looms as necessity. When Banquo and Macbeth in I.iii hear the witches' prophecy that Macbeth will ...
... assertion, that which is of value to individual life—in his case, immediate political power; whereas Banquo's lack of tragic assertion ultimately defines a more stable future value—the perpetuation of his family line. In the one case ...
... assertion concerning Macbeth's possession of “all” indicates how Macbeth's fulfillment of the witches' prophecy at once represents the essence of tragic selfassertion, negatively defines the value of life, and positively implies a realm ...
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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 |