Let Wonder Seem Familiar —— Shakespeare and the Romance Ending

----- 让奇迹看起来熟悉：莎士比亚与浪漫的结局

ISBN: 9780485112566 出版年：2000 页码：214 R S White Bloomsbury Publishing

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.