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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Structure and Experience in Shakespeare's Romances Robert W. Uphaus. though thou be none” (65-67). The first thing to notice here is that Banquo's question and the witches' response draw on a distinction between a compressed and an ...
... Thou hast it now: King, Cawdor, Glamis, all, As the weird women promis'd, and I fear Thou play'dst most foully for't; yet it was said It should not stand in thy posterity, But that myself should be the root and father Of many kings. If ...
... does make something out of nothing by showing how Lear's divisive actions have destroyed his legitimacy and debased him, like Cordelia, Edgar, and Kent, to a kind of bastard: “Thou hast par'd thy wit o' both sides, and left nothing.
... thou art now, I am a Fool, thou art nothing” (187-88, 192-94). The Fool clearly defines Lear as zero—an “O.” Lear has both left nothing in the middle, meaning that his divisive actions have destroyed any ordering or validating principle ...
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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 |