Beyond Tragedy: Structure and Experience in Shakespeare's Romances

By Robert W Uphaus

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 an

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081315507X
• ISBN13: 9780813155074
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher