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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... meaning and value of life it- self . Indeed , the presence of death in tragedy defines the magnitude , meaning , and value of life . When Wallace Stevens writes that " death is the mother of beauty , " or Emily Dickinson says that ...
... meaning and value of life it- self . Indeed , the presence of death in tragedy defines the magnitude , meaning , and value of life . When Wallace Stevens writes that " death is the mother of beauty , " or Emily Dickinson says that ...
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... meaning of tragedy , when Lear and the Fool try to determine the meaning of nothing and how it applies to Lear himself . The Fool attempts to INTIMATIONS OF ROMANCE 19.
... meaning of tragedy , when Lear and the Fool try to determine the meaning of nothing and how it applies to Lear himself . The Fool attempts to INTIMATIONS OF ROMANCE 19.
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... meaning of the storm . These responses and initial interpretations are divided among groups of characters , and these groups mark various stages of understanding . By the end of Act II Ferdinand , Miranda , and perhaps Gonzalo are full ...
... meaning of the storm . These responses and initial interpretations are divided among groups of characters , and these groups mark various stages of understanding . By the end of Act II Ferdinand , Miranda , and perhaps Gonzalo are full ...
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 |
Beyond Tragedy: Structure and Experience in Shakespeare's Romances Robert W. Uphaus Limited preview - 2021 |
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