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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... understanding of how romance incorporates and goes beyond tragedy. John Danby has written that the romance world “has four spheres that are interlocked. There is first the sphere of virtue and attained perfection; then the sphere of ...
... understanding of time in the sonnets is that “In sequent toil all forwards do contend” (Sonnet 60).11 That is, time is essentially one-directional, leading from birth to death. Now it is certainly true that Shakespeare also writes sonnets.
... understanding; and that understanding is always beyond any rational explanations.”14 Such an awareness in the romances is invariably prompted by the intrusion of oracles, visions, dreams, or experiences of apparent madness, where ...
... understanding of reality, either experientially or critically. These two matters—the requirement of the ability and willingness to experience romance, and the strain on our critical vocabulary in light of this the experience—make up the ...
... understandings of tragic, irreversible time, and non-tragic, reversible time. Banquo's individual fate is, in the short run, lesser and not so happy as Macbeth's; while in the long run it is greater and much happier because, unlike ...
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