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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... finally submission is made; and from the tension of the two impulses and their reaction upon each other, under the conditions of poetic exaltation, the distinctive tragic attitude and emotion appears to arise.”3 To put it another way ...
... finally, enclosing all, the sphere of the transcendent, guaranteeing after the 'storm and other hard slights' that the ending will be a happy one—granted patience.” Where Danby emphasizes the inclusiveness of romance—that is, its ...
... effect of The Winter's Tale, “It is, finally, the spectator-critic who is excluded from the center of the play, the imaginative participant who enters into it.”17 This does not mean that my approach to the romances is fated.
... finally submits to necessity. Third, the magnitude (intellectual, social, psychological, political) of the tragic protagonist serves to define and heighten the value of human life, even as the protagonist, paradoxically, attempts to ...
... finally frustrated, intimates the need for hierophany which is characteristic of romance. Albany first states the need for heavenly intervention: If that the heavens do not their visible spirits Send quickly down to tame these vild ...
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