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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... earlier tragedies. Indeed, it appears that such plays as King Lear and Antony and Cleopatra straddle two worlds: the world of tragedy as we know it from Shakespeare's prior tragedies, and a second world, beyond tragedy, which is implied ...
... earlier comedies, I shall try to show, especially in my discussion of The Winter's Tale, that pastoral is not simply used as a “green world,” where characters clarify and simplify the threatening complexities of an urban or court world ...
... earlier Thane of Cawdor, like Macbeth, was a traitor, and the King has been murdered. Indeed, one couplet at the end of I.ii captures the irreversible logic of Macbeth's tragic possession of “all.” About the first Thane of Cawdor, the ...
... earlier speech. Macduff's line, “He has no children,” expresses a tragic loss, but it also suggests the one possession which lifts Banquo's fate beyond tragedy; for he has children and they shall be kings. Again, the play's tragic ...
... earlier refusal to speak nothing: “I will be the pattern of all patience, / I will say nothing” (III.ii.3738). The “pattern of all patience,” in Shakespeare's romances, signifies a kind of resignation to, and exhaustion of, tragedy ...
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