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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... says that “after great pain a formal feeling comes,” they are both suggesting the essence of tragedy as we know it in Western culture. That is, the aesthetic enactment of death formalizes and defines life's beauty. Death is our “mother ...
... say about a kind of drama which is largely based on the idea that death is the cause of which life is the ultimate effect? Suddenly, what was an absolute close becomes a fascinating entrance into a different realm of human experience, a ...
... says, let us consider first the least persuasive way: the chronological position of the romances. Although the exact ... say, Hamlet and Othello, these plays have frequently been thought of as problematic tragedies. They are peculiar ...
... say, is supplanted by “great, creating Nature,” and death is seen to be a prelude to the larger regenerative processes of the total life cycle of nature. Although this strategy bears some resemblance to Shakespeare's use of pastoral in ...
... our assumptions, conscious or unconscious, about what constitutes reality, both in fact and in drama. Shakespeare's diverse uses of tragedy, comedy, and history generally abide by our ordinary sense of reality. I say.
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