TY  - GEN
T1  - Shakespearean romance
T2  - Princeton legacy library.
A1  - Felperin, Howard
LA  - English
PP  - Princeton, New Jersey
PB  - Princeton University Press
YR  - 1972
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocn905862836
AB  - 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.
OP  - 333
NO  - Includes index.
CN  - PR2976 .F35 1972eb
SN  - 9781400868308
SN  - 1400868300
SN  - 9780691619606
SN  - 9780691062303
SN  - 0691619603
KW  - Shakespeare, William, : 1564-1616 : Tragicomedies.
KW  - Shakespeare, William, : 1564-1616
KW  - Romances : Adaptations.
KW  - Tragicomedy : History and criticism.
KW  - Tragicomédie : Histoire et critique.
KW  - DRAMA : Shakespeare.
KW  - DRAMA : English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
KW  - Romances
KW  - Tragicomedy
KW  - Tragicomedies
KW  - Adaptations
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc.
ER  -