Beyond Tragedy: Structure and Experience in Shakespeare's RomancesUniversity Press of Kentucky, 21 d’oct. 2021 - 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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... Father Time ... may act, generally speaking, either as a Destroyer, or as a Revealer, or as a universal and inexorable power which through a cycle of procreation and destruction causes what may be called a cosmic continuity.”12 It is ...
... fathers and daughters, fathers and sons—but these displacements again do not lead to an absolute close; rather they become the backdrop and prelude to an experience of providential order. Here The Winter's Tale is a spectacular example ...
... father Of many kings. If there come truth from them— As upon them, Macbeth, their speeches shine—Why, by the verities on thee made good, May they not be my oracles as well And set me up in hope. (III.i.1-10) In Act IV Macduff, hearing ...
... father's estate), becomes something by identifying Edgar, who is legitimate, with nothing. When he presents a forged letter to Gloucester, Edmund enacts and entraps Gloucester in another version of nothing: Gloucester. What paper were ...
... father: “O you kind gods! / Cure this great breach in his abused nature” (IV.vii.13-14). What happens throughout Act IV, then, is that Edgar and Cordelia, in particular, attempt to invoke and create a sense of the miraculous which is an ...
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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 - 2014 |
Beyond Tragedy: Structure & Experience in Shakespeare's Romances, Volum 10 Robert W. Uphaus Visualització de fragments - 1981 |