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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... expectations. For one thing, the plot structures of the romances do not conform with our ordinary understanding of reality, either experientially or critically. These two matters—the requirement of the ability and willingness to ...
... expectations about literature and reality, and this challenge is—or should be—one of their chief delights. One starting point for acknowledging the implications of this challenge is to examine the diverse ways through which the romances ...
... expectations. Its claims are wholly public; its values 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 ...
... expectations, the other just as fully denying those expectations. Hearing of Antony's death, Caesar tragically exclaims: The breaking of so great a thing should make A greater crack. The round world Should have shook lions into civil ...
... expectations of tragedy. It is fascinating to watch how in Act V she taunts Caesar, frustrating his acquisitive impulses, and reversing the absolute close of tragedy which Caesar believes to be irreversible. Cleopatra thus opens up a ...
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Beyond Tragedy: Structure & Experience in Shakespeare's Romances, Band 10 Robert W. Uphaus Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 1981 |
Beyond Tragedy: Structure and Experience in Shakespeare's Romances Robert W. Uphaus Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 2014 |