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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... 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 argument of this study ...
... response draw on a distinction between a compressed and an expanded view of time, between the short run and the long run. The short-run view, which appears favorable, is in fact tragic because it will lead to an absolute close; the long ...
... response to Antony's suggestion that he become “a child o' th' time” Caesar replies, “Possess it, I'll make answer” (II.vii.100-101). This brief exchange concerning how to use time is just one of a number of instances where diverse ...
... response to Antony's death with Antony's response to his own death, we demonstrably arrive at two antithetical inteament nor sorrrpretations of individual life—the one full of tragic expectations, the other just as fully denying those ...
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