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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... providential revelation.” Dramatically, this movement away from human nature to great creating Nature may also be seen in the romances' drift away one from psychological experience, which is distinctly realistic and individual, to.
... providential experience, of one kind or another, that absorbs the existence of, or potential for, tragedy. This process can be clearly seen if we briefly recall the plots of the various romances. Pericles begins with the taboo which ...
... providential reading of how history verifies the dramatic experience of romance. These plot structures, however, frequently place a great deal of strain on the audience's, as well as the critics', conventional expectations. For one ...
... providential powers, whose entry is so vital to Shakespeare's romances. The last line of Act III is “Now heaven help him [Gloucester]!” and this invocation, although it is finally frustrated, intimates the need for hierophany which is ...
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