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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... difference between the dominant use of time in the sonnets, as distinguished from the romances, is that in the former we are insistently reminded of “Time's thievish progress to eternity” (Sonnet 77), while in the romances Shakespeare ...
... difference between tragedy and comedy is the difference between experience and intuition. In the experience we strive against every condition of our animal life: against death, against the frustration of ambition, against the ...
... difference between the expansive view of nontragic time, and the shorter, compressed view of tragic time. Thus the respective fates of Macbeth and Banquo are not duplicates, though both men die, but opposites. But the play itself, with ...
... difference between real value and the nothing which is numerical value is the difference between the King of France's estimate of Cordelia—“She is herself a dowry” (I.i.241)—and Lear's demand to have her speak “a third more opulent” to ...
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