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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Page 38
... tempest emblem and its variants . ” 4 I have previously men- tioned the absorptive capacity of the romances ; in these lines we can see the underlying design of how these absorptive processes work . Externally , Pericles bears a tempest ...
... tempest emblem and its variants . ” 4 I have previously men- tioned the absorptive capacity of the romances ; in these lines we can see the underlying design of how these absorptive processes work . Externally , Pericles bears a tempest ...
Page 93
... Tempest , and perhaps the best means of stating my approach to the play is to re- vert to the paradoxical thesis that Prospero's art performs the disso- lution of art in such a way that the imaginative representation or fiction of ...
... Tempest , and perhaps the best means of stating my approach to the play is to re- vert to the paradoxical thesis that Prospero's art performs the disso- lution of art in such a way that the imaginative representation or fiction of ...
Page 126
... tempest imagery with the subsequent historical emergence of the Church of England . Indeed in Act V , which draws heavily on Foxe's Acts and Monuments , we shall see that the tempest imag- ery of this play at least parallels , and may ...
... tempest imagery with the subsequent historical emergence of the Church of England . Indeed in Act V , which draws heavily on Foxe's Acts and Monuments , we shall see that the tempest imag- ery of this play at least parallels , and may ...
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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Beyond Tragedy: Structure and Experience in Shakespeare's Romances Robert W. Uphaus Limited preview - 2014 |
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