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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... characters' and audience's commitment to life as a supreme value. It would be impossible, at least in Western culture, to write a successful tragedy if either the audience or the characters did not believe in, nor assert, the ...
... characters, as well as the audience, with versions of a second chance or fresh start. The romances achieve this exit by adopting two different premises that are wholly antithetical to—and yet capable of assimilating—tragedy. First, the ...
... characters—especially the women—are associated with the abstract virtues of patience, charity, chastity, faith, and truth. This is not to deny the identity of the characters as people, however; many of the romances, as C. L. Barber has ...
... characters' time sense is essentially temporal because “In sequent toil all forwards do contend,” the romances draw on sacred experiences of time. Remarking on The Winter's Tale, Brian Cosgrove has noted: “Besides the idea of values in ...
... characters' tragic past is incorporated into a redeemed present beyond tragedy. And Henry VIII, which I shall argue is basically a romance, begins with the potentially tragic deaths of Buckingham, Wolsey, and Katherine, only to treat ...
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