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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... argues that tragedy deals with " " boundary situations , ' man at the limits of his sover- eignty , " or that tragedy presents a conflict between " necessity , and the reaction to necessity of self - conscious effort , " or that tragedy ...
... argues that " the archetypal pattern corresponding to tragedy may be said to be a certain organization of the tendencies of self - assertion and submission . The self which is asserted is magnified by that same col- lective force to ...
... argues that he and Cordelia are free of a tragic world and thereby endowed with a kind of divine aware- ness . They are , he declares , above it all , the inhabitants of a realm beyond tragedy : We two alone will sing like birds i ' th ...
... argues that man does not possess time ; rather he is a " child " of it , which is to say he is subject to , rather than master of , time . Because it is much less assertive and ambitious , the Alexan- drian view correspondingly ...
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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 |