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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... individual achievements, and the greatest achievement of life, in tragedy, is to die a death which expresses the fullest experience and awareness of the terrible loss it is to lose a life. Above all, tragedy as we know it depends on the ...
... individual life, on which tragedy is based, must be supplanted by, or rather incorporated in, a new set of values and experiences which assert the predominance and continuation of the life cycle generally, even as they limit the value ...
... individual human life is replaced by an emphasis on the cycle of life and death as a continuation of the larger processes of life itself. Human nature, so to say, is supplanted by “great, creating Nature,” and death is seen to be a ...
... individual, to archetypal patterns of human behavior which emphasize the collective and symbolic patterns of the life cycle. Thus the romances frequently place great importance on such things as the sea, flowers, music, seasonal cycles ...
... individuals, the survival of individuals, and the death and succession of royal and historical personages. Shakespeare's history plays are perhaps the most conspicuously verifiable in the sense that they chronicle, even as they reshape ...
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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 |