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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... reversible time, where the ideas of cause and effect, beginning and end, are displaced by a sense of simultaneity, harmony, and hierophany. Some of these disruptions of conventional uses of time no doubt derive from the tradition of ...
... reversible time is quite unlike the dominant image of time in his sonnets. In the sonnets Shakespeare continually emphasizes “wasteful Time” (Sonnet 15), “this bloody tyrant Time” (Sonnet 16), “Devouring Time” (Sonnet 19), and “sluttish ...
... reversible time. Banquo's individual fate is, in the short run, lesser and not so happy as Macbeth's; while in the long run it is greater and much happier because, unlike Macbeth's absolute close, Banquo's individual death is a prelude ...
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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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