Let Wonder Seem Familiar: Shakespeare and the Romance Ending (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780485112566)

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.

Author: R. S. White
ISBN-10: 0485112566
ISBN-13: 9780485112566
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Language: English
Published: 12/01/2000
Pages: 214
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.50d