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Informationen zum Autor R.S. White Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface 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
