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Beyond tragedy : structure & experience in Shakespeare's romances

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
Print Book, English, 1981
University Press of Kentucky, Lexington, 1981
Tragicomedy
150 pages ; 22 cm
9780813114415, 0813114411
7574045
One: Beyond Tragedy
Two: Tragedy and the Intimations of Romance
Three: Pericles and the Conventions of Romance
Four: Cymbeline and the Parody of Romance
Five: The Issues of The Winter's Tale
Six: Prospero's Art and the Descent of Romance
Seven: History, Romance, and Henry VIII