Shakespearean Romance (eBook)

Howard M. Felperin (Autor)

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2015
334 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-6830-8 (ISBN)

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If Shakespeare's last plays—Pericles, Cymbeline, The Winter's Tale, The Tempest, and Henry VIII—are to be neither debunked nor idealized but taken seriously on their own terms, they must be examined within the traditions and conventions of romance. Howard Felperin defines this relatively neglected literary mode and locates these plays within it. But, as he shows, romance was not simply an established genre in which Shakespeare worked at both the beginning and end of his career but a mode of perceiving the world that pervades and shapes his entire work.The last plays are examined to answer such questions as: How does Shakespeare raise to a higher power the conventions of romance available to him, particularly those of the native medieval drama? How does he bring us to accept these elements of romance? Above all, how does romance, the mode in which the imagination enjoys its freest expression, become the vehicle, not of beautiful, escapist fantasy but of moral truth?Originally published in 1972.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.3.2015
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Dramatik / Theater
• Schlagworte: Achilles Tatius • Aeneid • Ahab • Allegory • A Midsummer Night's Dream • Ancient Greek comedy • Anti-romance • Archimago • Aubade • beaumont and fletcher • Ben Jonson • caliban • chivalric romance • Comedy of Manners • Courtly Love • Critical Essays (Orwell) • Cymbeline • Deathless (novel) • delilah • Deus ex machina • Divine Comedy • Edmund Spenser • Epic Poetry • Euripides • Figure of Speech • Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay • G. (novel) • Gonzalo (The Tempest) • green world • G. Wilson Knight • Havelok the Dane • henriad • Ibid (short story) • Irony • Jaques (As You Like It) • Joseph Addison • leontes • Literature • Love's Labour's Lost • Lycidas • Madame Bovary • malvolio • Mary Shelley • Matter of Britain • M. H. Abrams • Misery (novel) • Morality Play • Mutability (poem) • Mystery Play • Northrop Frye • Odysseus • Orlando Furioso • Palinode • Paradise Regained • Paul et Virginie • Pericles, Prince of Tyre • petruchio • Playwright • Poetry • Portia (The Merchant of Venice) • Prose • Protestantism • pylades • Romance/Romance • Romantic comedy film • Rosencrantz and Guildenstern • Samuel Taylor Coleridge • Science Fiction • sentimentality • seriousness • shakespearean comedy • Shakespeare's Plays • Shylock • simile • Sir Orfeo • Solipsism • sycorax • The Comedy of Errors • The Earthly Paradise • The Faerie Queene • The Fair Maid of the West • The Great Tradition • The Knight's Tale • The Merchant of Venice • The Pilgrim's Progress (opera) • The Prophetess (play) • The Taming of the Shrew • The Tempest • The Two Gentlemen of Verona • Thomas Malory • Tragedy • Trial by combat • Troilus and Criseyde • Trojan War • Twelfth Night • V. • Verisimilitude (fiction) • When We Dead Awaken • wild man • William Shakespeare
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-6830-0 / 1400868300
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-6830-8 / 9781400868308