Beyond Tragedy: Structure and Experience in Shakespeare's RomancesUniversity Press of Kentucky, 15 de jul. de 2014 - 160 páginas 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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... sense that the moment we are born is the moment of greatest human suffering in potential, and the tragic pattern of life is the realization and exhaustion of that potential. Maud Bodkin describes this pattern quite precisely when she ...
... sense of life when the conventional basis of tragedy is at once reversed and expanded? That is, in tragedy life or the will to live is eventually the cause of death. But what do we say about a kind of drama which is largely based on the ...
... sense of continuation to occur, the value and magnitude of an individual life, on which tragedy is based, must be supplanted by, or rather incorporated in, a new set of values and experiences which assert the predominance and ...
... sense of time. Instead of treating time as leading always and only toward death, or as irreversible, the romances continually, and often abruptly, depend on versions of reversible time, where the ideas of cause and effect, beginning and ...
... sense is essentially temporal because “In sequent toil all forwards do contend,” the romances draw on sacred experiences of time. Remarking on The Winter's Tale, Brian Cosgrove has noted: “Besides the idea of values in time, it is also ...
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Tragedy and the Intimations of Romance | 12 |
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 |
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Beyond Tragedy: Structure & Experience in Shakespeare's Romances, Volume 10 Robert W. Uphaus Visualização parcial - 1981 |
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