Beyond Tragedy [electronic resource] : Structure and Experience in Shakespeare's Romances / Robert W. Uphaus.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Uphaus, Robert W.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tragicomedy--History and criticism.

Tragicomedy.

Romances--Adaptations.

Romances.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Tragicomedies.

Shakespeare, William.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (161 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, 1981.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 s

Contents:

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; ONE: Beyond Tragedy; TWO: Tragedy and the Intimations of Romance; THREE: Pericles and the Conventions of Romance; FOUR: Cymbeline and the Parody of Romance; FIVE: The Issues of The Winter's Tale; SIX: Prospero's Art and the Descent of Romance; SEVEN: History, Romance, and Henry VIII; NOTES ; INDEX ; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; W; Y

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8131-6474-5

OCLC:

900344891