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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... represent and enact a realm of human experience which can be said to be “beyond tragedy.” Customarily tragedy has been regarded as the be-all and endall of human and dramatic experience. Whether one argues that tragedy deals with ...
... represents not so much a chosen death, as a death which formally elicits and circumscribes the tremendous potential of human accomplishment. The magnitude of tragedy is defined by the greatest individual achievements, and the greatest ...
Structure and Experience in Shakespeare's Romances Robert W. Uphaus. represents the loss of life's significance. The tragic protagonist, such as King Lear, dies into life (“we came crying hither”), even as he lives into death. The tragic ...
... represent a realm beyond tragedy, a realm “beyond the walls of the world” as Tolkien says, let us consider first the least persuasive way: the chronological position of the romances. Although the exact dates of Shakespeare's plays are ...
... 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 view of ...
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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 |