Shakespeare's Romances (New Casebooks (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm)).)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: February 8, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780333679753
Subjects: Shakespeare studies & criticism; c 1500 to c 1600; Plays / Drama; English; Literary Criticism; British Isles; Europe; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; European - General; Shakespeare; Literary Criticism & Collections / European; 1564-1616; History and criticism; Shakespeare, William,; Tragicomedies; Tragicomedy
First sentence: If Shakespeare's tragedies give us the measure of what it means to sink beneath the burden of history, crushed by 'The weight of this sad time' (King Lear, V.iii.324), his comedies and romances create opportunities to explore the way the world might look and feel with the dead weight of prevalence and probability lifted from its shoulders.