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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... continually presenting 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 ...
... continually, and often abruptly, depend on versions of reversible time, where the ideas of cause and effect, beginning and end, are displaced by a sense of simultaneity, harmony, and hierophany. Some of these disruptions of conventional ...
... continually attempt to invoke beneficent providential powers, whose entry is so vital to Shakespeare's romances. The last line of Act III is “Now heaven help him [Gloucester]!” and this invocation, although it is finally frustrated ...
... continually refer to public service, power, and duty. Antony himself, on leaving Cleopatra, tries to accommodate both views: Hear me, Queen: The strong necessity of time commands Our services awhile; but my full heart Remains in use ...
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