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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... beyond, without repudiating, the experience of tragedy.” Furthermore, unlike tragedy, where the characters' time sense is ... realm of transcendent value which time cannot touch.” Characters thus do not so much control as respond to ...
... beyond tragedy; for Acts IV and V, through the use of pastoral comedy as well as the reversal of tragic time, modulate the genuine tragedy of Act I–III.ii into the realm of romance, culminating with the great statue scene in V.iii which ...
... realm of experience beyond what customarily passes for reality and beyond, therefore, the grasp of a critical vocabulary whose basic premise is the self-sufficiency of reason. It is awareness of this that has led Brian Cosgrove to ...
... project a realm of human and dramatic experience beyond tragedy, even as they draw from Shakespeare's prior tragedies to enact such a unique experience. TWO Tragedy and the Intimations of Romance Many critics have BEYONDTRAGEDY 11.
... realm beyond tragedy which is fully enacted in the romances. As I indicated in chapter 1, Shakespeare's tragedies are based on at least five elements. First, the overall action of the play displays the protagonist in a “boundary ...
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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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