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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... fall,” customarily associated with tragedy, is transformed by a deliberate enactment of ostensible miracle. In his attempt to dramatize a version of romance, Edgar tells Gloucester, “Thy life's a miracle” (55) and “therefore, thou happy ...
... fall!” (I.i,3334), as if Antony's death has now fulfilled a prophecy and validated an authentic escape from tragedy. This alternative to tragedy is based on a contemptuous interpretation of Caesar's tragic understanding of the “world ...
... fall of empires should be tragic because it defines the magnitude of human life; yet what Caesar values, from Cleopatra's standpoint, is inconsequential, something “no better than a sty.” Moreover, one should not overlook the structural ...
... fall of Antony and Cleopatra is tragic only to the extent that we share Caesar's assumptions about time, the importance of public acts of selfassertion, the value of individual life, and the worth of worldly possessions. If we do not ...
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