Beyond Tragedy: Structure and Experience in Shakespeare's RomancesUniversity Press of Kentucky, 15.07.2014 - 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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... action. Having tried to possess “all” by destroying “all,” he defines his own action, as well as the action of tragedy, as “nothing.” The tragic pathos of Macbeth's meditation on “to-morrow” is that his future, unlike Banquo's, is ...
... action has been exhausted. The whole of IV.vii, like IV.vi, is suffused with a sense of penitence, forgiveness, and salvation. Lear believes himself to have been lifted “out o' th' grave” (IV.vii.44), paralleling Gloucester's earlier ...
... action and vocabulary they are characteristic of the conclusions to the romances. But the point, and it is a fatal point, is that these two scenes occur in Act IV, not Act V, and thus they only intimate an alternative which is utterly ...
... action exhausts itself in order to create a new, free time, King Lear also exhausts the basis of that “free” time by completely destroying its own intimations of romance; this is the significance and tragic necessity of Cordelia's death ...
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Pericles and the Conventions of Romance | 34 |
Cymbeline and the Parody of Romance | 49 |
The Issues of The Winters Tale | 69 |
Prosperos Art and the Descent of Romance | 92 |
History Romance and Henry VIII | 118 |
NOTES | 141 |
INDEX | 149 |
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