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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... once reversed and expanded? That is, in tragedy life or the will to live is eventually the cause of death. But what do we say about a kind of drama which is largely based on the idea that death is the cause of which life is the ultimate ...
... once a reenactment and a recycling of a past tragedy that leads to an experience of romance, as transformed tragedy, in the present. For Prospero and the older generation, the entire play enacts a second chance whereby the characters ...
... once represents the essence of tragic selfassertion, negatively defines the value of life, and positively implies a realm beyond tragedy. In fact, the fulfillment of the prophecy, as seen by Banquo, authenticates both the destructive ...
... once forms the tragic answer to the “seeds of time” and demonstrates that Macbeth is not only the protagonist of a tragic play but a working definition of tragedy in action. Having tried to possess “all” by destroying “all,” he defines ...
... once spiritual and sensual. Cleopatra supplies the negative answer to the question when, watching Antony die, she estimates the value of Antony and the world: Shall I abide In this dull world, which in thy absence is No better than a ...
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