Beyond tragedy: structure & experience in Shakespeare's romances
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Main Author: Uphaus, Robert W. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Lexington The University Press of Kentucky 1981
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Item Description:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
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
Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN:9780813164748
0813164745
0813114411
9780813114415
081315507X
9780813155074

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