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Description
Dr White examines the ways in which Shakespeare uses formal conventions from romance throughout his writing career, especially in giving formal completion to a play without forfeiting the 'open-ended' sense of life's complexity. In his romantic comedies these conventions are modified to imply that the cosy womb of marriage is not the end of lovers' lives; in the 'problem' comedies they are used to challenge the artifice of the comic ending; in some tragedies they are used to provide an ideal of fulfilment which has been destroyed by the tragic events - and in the last plays or 'romances' they are used to invoke the full sense of life's continuing comprehensiveness.
Table of Contents
1. The sense of an ending in Elizabethan romance
2. The sense of an ending in early Elizabethan romantic comedy
3. Shakespeare's mature romantic comedies
4. The 'problem' comedies
5. Romance in the Tragedies
6. Shakespeare's romances: Pericles, Cymbeline, The Winter's Tale
7. The Tempest
Conclusion
Appendix: Elizabethan romance and stage comedy - historical survey
Notes
Index
Product details
| Published | 01 Dec 2000 |
|---|---|
| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 203 |
| ISBN | 9780485112566 |
| Imprint | The Athlone Press |
| Dimensions | 234 x 156 mm |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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