Beyond Tragedy: Structure and Experience in Shakespeare's RomancesUniversity Press of Kentucky, 15 лип. 2014 р. - 160 стор. 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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... Macbeth, King Lear, and Antony and Cleopatra immediately precede Shakespeare's romances. What makes these plays, as well as their chronological position, extremely interesting is that compared to, say, Hamlet and Othello, these plays ...
... Macbeth, King Lear, and Antony and Cleopatra are something other than tragedy. Rather they are tragedies that either intimate or dramatize versions of “worlds elsewhere,” to borrow from Coriolanus, and, further, these “worlds elsewhere ...
... Macbeth is an orthodox tragedy, King Lear and Antony and Cleopatra, defined against Macbeth, introduce elements which intimate the idea of Shakespearean romance and, just as important, define that idea against the structure and ...
... 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 they antedate Macbeth's presence on stage, require his presence ...
... Macbeth wishes to possess, by an act of selfassertion, that which is of value to individual life—in his case ... Macbeth's; while in the long run it is greater and much happier because, unlike Macbeth's absolute close, Banquo's ...
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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 |
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