TY - BOOK AU - Uphaus,Robert W. TI - Beyond tragedy: structure & experience in Shakespeare's romances SN - 9780813164748 AV - PR2981 .B496 1981 PY - 1981/// CY - Lexington PB - The University Press of Kentucky KW - Romances KW - Adaptations KW - Tragicomedy KW - History and criticism KW - Shakespeare, William KW - Tragicomedies KW - Electronic Books N1 - 2; 2; b N2 - 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 UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=938489&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -