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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... human magnitude. That magnitude is directly related to the fact that tragedy deals with death, an event of the greatest human importance, and in dealing with death tragedy takes up, paradoxically, the most basic issue of life: namely ...
... human suffering in potential, and the tragic pattern of life is the realization and exhaustion of that potential. Maud Bodkin describes this pattern quite precisely when she argues that “the archetypal pattern corresponding to tragedy ...
... human life is ultimately defined by the loss or exhaustion of the very life which asserts that meaning. But what happens to a tragic sense of life when the conventional basis of tragedy is at once reversed and expanded? That is, in ...
... human imperfection, political and passionate, surrounding and likely at any minute to threaten the first; around these again, the sphere of non-human accident, chance, or misfortune, the sphere of the sea and storms; and finally ...
... tragedy is in the assumptions common to their genre. Tragedy, as I argued earlier, is determined by the value it places on the potential and exhaustion of human accomplishment, which is its source of magnitude, and by its.
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