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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... audience's commitment to life as a supreme value . It would be im- possible , at least in Western culture , to write a successful tragedy if either the audience or the characters did not believe in , nor assert , the continuation of ...
... audience , with ver- sions of a second chance or fresh start . The romances achieve this exit by adopting two different premises that are wholly antithetical to - and yet capable of assimilating - tragedy . First , the value ac- corded ...
... audience's , as well as the critics ' , conventional expecс- tations . For one thing , the plot structures of the romances do not conform with our ordinary understanding of reality , either experi- entially or critically . These two ...
... audience's sense of reality . But the romances are openly defiant of probability , both dramatic and historical . They defy our conventional assumptions about real- ity and rationality by dramatizing a realm of experience beyond what ...
... audience with an alternative which is consumed . For the " mystery of things " is wholly depen- dent on Lear's continued reunion with Cordelia ; only together can they act as " God's spies . " Yet the clear purpose of this intimated al ...
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 |