Beyond Tragedy: Structure and Experience in Shakespeare's RomancesUniversity Press of Kentucky, 15 de jul. 2014 - 160 pàgines 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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... end-all of human and dramatic experience. Whether one argues that tragedy deals with “boundary situations,' man at ... absolute close,” there still remains a strong, if uninspected, conviction that tragedy is the most important form of ...
... absolute close, because death in tragedy defines life's significance at the same time that it represents the loss of life's significance. The tragic protagonist, such as King Lear, dies into life (“we came crying hither”), even as he ...
... absolute close. All choices enacted by Shakespeare's tragic protagonists are irreversible; we see in tragedy Robert Heilman has remarked, “the inevitability of the avoidable.” Shakespeare's tragic protagonists are trapped within time ...
... absolute close; rather they become the backdrop and prelude to an experience of providential order. Here The Winter's Tale is a spectacular example of romance's 8 Beyond Tragedy.
... absolute close—usually death. For example, from the very beginning Macbeth presents the audience, as well as Macbeth, with a striking series of equivocations which elicit a need for definition and resolution. These equivocations, though ...
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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 |
Altres edicions - Mostra-ho tot
Beyond Tragedy: Structure & Experience in Shakespeare's Romances, Volum 10 Robert W. Uphaus Previsualització limitada - 1981 |
Beyond Tragedy: Structure and Experience in Shakespeare's Romances Robert W. Uphaus Previsualització limitada - 2021 |
Beyond Tragedy: Structure & Experience in Shakespeare's Romances, Volum 10 Robert W. Uphaus Visualització de fragments - 1981 |