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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... characters' tragic past is incorporated into a redeemed present beyond tragedy. And Henry VIII, which I shall argue is basically a romance, begins with the potentially tragic deaths of Buckingham, Wolsey, and Katherine, only to treat ...
... characters play on diverse understandings of time. That is, the short run of Macbeth's death, with which the play is primarily concerned, defines the longer run of Banquo's destiny which, though only intimated, represents a potential ...
... characters themselves begin to feel the exhaustion of tragedy and intimate a realm beyond tragedy. Lear himself expresses the antithesis to tragic disorder in a way that duplicates and validates Cordelia's earlier refusal to speak ...
... characters continually attempt to invoke beneficent providential powers, whose entry is so vital to Shakespeare's romances. The last line of Act III is “Now heaven help him [Gloucester]!” and this invocation, although it is finally ...
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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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