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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... received from both the College of Arts and Letters and the All University Research Fund at Michigan State University. My wife, Sue, in so many ways makes this book possible. But the question which too few ask is, what kind. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.
... kind of emotional response were the Romances designed to arouse? Has not the “delight” of romance been rather neglected? —Philip Edwards, “Shakespeare's Romances: 1900-1957,” Shakespeare Survey 11 (1958): 17. ONE Beyond Tragedy The ...
... kind of drama which is largely based on the idea that death is the cause of which life is the ultimate effect? Suddenly, what was an absolute close becomes a fascinating entrance into a different realm of human experience, a prelude, in ...
... kind of symbolic or emblematic awareness, and many of the central characters—especially the women—are associated with the abstract virtues of patience, charity, chastity, faith, and truth. This is not to deny the identity of the ...
... kind of understanding; and that understanding is always beyond any rational explanations.”14 Such an awareness in the romances is invariably prompted by the intrusion of oracles, visions, dreams, or experiences of apparent madness ...
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