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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... becomes a fascinating entrance into a different realm of human experience, a prelude, in fact, to the continuation and regeneration of life. For such a sense of continuation to occur, the value and magnitude of an individual life, on ...
... become the experiential realm beyond tragedy which is fully enacted in the romances. The chronological position of these late tragedies suggests the very straddling quality which I believe to be characteristic of some of the dramatic ...
... become fools of time.7 The absolute close of tragedy is the dramatic concomitant of the character's experience of time, and there is no exit available for Shakespeare's tragic protagonists from time's one-directional, and essentially ...
... become the backdrop and prelude to an experience of providential order. Here The Winter's Tale is a spectacular example of romance's ability to elicit a human and dramatic experience beyond tragedy; for Acts IV and V, through the use of ...
... ” subsequently become the experiential realm beyond tragedy which is fully enacted in the romances. As. Tragedy. and. the. Intimations. of. Romance. Pericles and the Conventions of Romance. TWO: Tragedy and the Intimations of Romance.
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