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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... important form of drama because it is the drama of the greatest 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 ...
... importance on such things as the sea, flowers, music, seasonal cycles, magic, and transrational experiences generally ... important, though, Shakespeare's use of reversible time is quite unlike the dominant image of time in his sonnets ...
... important, define that idea against the structure and experience of tragedy. By looking at three of the late tragedies I shall try to determine the basic premises of the plays' tragic structure and to show how this structure is expanded ...
... importance of public acts of selfassertion, the value of individual life, and the worth of worldly possessions. If we do not share Caesar's view, as Antony and Cleopatra finally do not, then we are left in the peculiar position, as ...
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