Shakespearean Romance / / Howard Felperin.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1931-1979
• VerfasserIn: Felperin, Howard,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015]; ©1972
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library ; 1749
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (334 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Part I: Background and Theory -- I. Golden-Tongued Romance -- Part II: Toward Shakespearean Romance -- 2. From Comedy to Romance -- 3. The Problem Plays -- 4. Baconian Tragedy -- Part III: The Romances -- 5. This Great Miracle: Pericles -- 6. Tragical-Comical-Historical-Pastoral: Cymbeline And Henry VIII. -- 7. Our Carver's Excellence: The Winter's Tale -- 8. Undream'd Shores: The Tem-Pest -- Bibliographical Appendix -- Index