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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... action of magical and moral laws in a version of human life so selective as to obscure , for the spe- cial purpose of concentrating attention on these laws , the fact that in reality their force is intermittent and only fitfully ...
... action of the play displays the protagonist in a " boundary situation , " or as Richard Sewall says , " man at the limits of his sovereignty . " Second , this tragic ac- tion gives rise to a tension between what Maud Bodkin calls the ...
... action in time exists within a dramatic structure that inevitably moves to- ward an absolute close - usually death . For example , from the very beginning Macbeth presents the audi- ence , as well as Macbeth , with a striking series of ...
... action Macbeth initiates in the present is done in anticipation of , and defined against , future necessity . Every ... actions which , in diverse ways , amounts to " nothing . " At the beginning of Act III Banquo declares : Thou ...
... action , built on Macbeth's attempts to possess and destroy " all , " dramatizes the compressed , irreversible time of tragedy which moves toward an absolute close , at the same moment that it intimates what Banquo experiences , in an ...
Continguts
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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 |