Beyond Tragedy: Structure and Experience in Shakespeare's Romances - Paperback
by Robert W. Uphaus (Author)
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
Robert W. Uphaus is professor of English at Michigan State University. He is also the author of The Impossible Observer: Reason and the Reader in Eighteenth-Century Prose.
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