{"product_id":"beyond-tragedy-structure-and-experience-in-shakespeares-romances-paperback","title":"Beyond Tragedy: Structure and Experience in Shakespeare's Romances - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRobert W. Uphaus\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the late tragedies of \u003ci\u003eKing Lear\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAntony and Cleopatra\u003c\/i\u003e, Uphaus finds the tragic structure augmented by elements that will later contribute to the form of the romances. Turning then to the romances themselves, he sees these plays as forming a profession in which \u003ci\u003ePericles\u003c\/i\u003e is a brilliant outline of the conventions of romance and \u003ci\u003eCymbeline\u003c\/i\u003e is romance taken to its dramatic limits, in fact to the point of parody. Through his fresh and provocative readings of the plays we experience anew the delight of Shakespearean romance and glimpse the world of renewal at its heart.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eRobert W. Uphaus\u003c\/b\u003e is professor of English at Michigan State University. He is also the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Impossible Observer: Reason and the Reader in Eighteenth-Century Prose\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 160\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.37 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 15, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50453889515757,"sku":"9780813155074","price":42.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.webster.direct\/products\/beyond-tragedy-structure-and-experience-in-shakespeares-romances-paperback","provider":"Webster.Direct","version":"1.0","type":"link"}