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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... prior tragedies, and a second world, beyond tragedy, which is implied in Macbeth, intimated in Act IV of King Lear, and enacted throughout Antony and Cleopatra. As will be apparent in the next chapter, however, I am not suggesting that ...
... prior tragedy and the subsequent experience of romance. If the use of pastoral in Shakespeare's comedies contributes to the principle “through release to clarification,”8 might say the romances use pastoral as a bridge “from tragedy to ...
... realm of human and dramatic experience beyond tragedy, even as they draw from Shakespeare's prior tragedies to enact such a unique experience. TWO Many critics have noted significant relationships between Shakespeare's last.
... prior nothings become something, and prior somethings are debased to nothing. For example, in the very first lines of the play we are told that Lear had “more affected the Duke of Albany than Cornwall ... but now in the division of the ...
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