Beyond Tragedy: Structure & Experience in Shakespeare's Romances, Volume 10In 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. |
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... Posthumus , observing , among other things , that Imogen's breast is " ( Worthy her pressing ) ” ( II.iv.135 ) , such a scene may have the potential for tragedy , but Posthumus is made to appear a fool rather than a tragic victim . His ...
... Posthumus , observing , among other things , that Imogen's breast is " ( Worthy her pressing ) ” ( II.iv.135 ) , such a scene may have the potential for tragedy , but Posthumus is made to appear a fool rather than a tragic victim . His ...
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... Posthumus , telling him " Thou wrong'st a gentleman , who is as far / From thy report as thou from honor " ( I.v , 145-46 ) , and then in the next breath she falls for Iachimo's alternate plan , just as Posthumus later believes Iach ...
... Posthumus , telling him " Thou wrong'st a gentleman , who is as far / From thy report as thou from honor " ( I.v , 145-46 ) , and then in the next breath she falls for Iachimo's alternate plan , just as Posthumus later believes Iach ...
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... Posthumus that what is happening to him is none of his business . And to prove this , he presents Posthumus with a riddle , which Posthumus hopes is " not , as is our fangled world , a garment / Nobler than it covers ! " ( V.iv.134-35 ) ...
... Posthumus that what is happening to him is none of his business . And to prove this , he presents Posthumus with a riddle , which Posthumus hopes is " not , as is our fangled world , a garment / Nobler than it covers ! " ( V.iv.134-35 ) ...
Contents
Tragedy and the Intimations of Romance 12 | 12 |
Pericles and the Conventions of Romance | 34 |
Cymbeline and the Parody of Romance 49 | 49 |
Copyright | |
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