Shakespeare and the Ends of ComedyIndiana University Press, 1991 - 158 頁 "This is a congenial, lucidly written work, the product of careful thought and attention to performance." --Shakespeare Bulletin "... Jensen has done a service by reminding readers of the variety and richness of the comedy and comic devices in Shakespeare's plays." --Choice "The ear that Jensen brings to the plays themselves results in close readings that are always insightful and stimulate new questions." --English Language Notes "Here is a genuinely readable and enjoyable book... humane, balanced, unpolemical, good humored, and fundamentally sane." --Charles R. Forker "... Jensen has produced a sensitive and eminently readable book that will no doubt figure prominently in future attempts to understand Shakespeare's comic practice." --Shakespeare Yearbook Jensen questions a persistent critical emphasis that finds the meanings of Shakespeare's comedies in their endings. Analyzing The Merchant of Venice, Much Ado about Nothing, As You Like It, Twelfth Night, and Measure for Measure, he shows how much vitality is sacrificed when critics assume that "the end crowns the work." |
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... Claudio " is the equivalent of Bassanio's casket scene . It provides an occasion for him to " give and hazard all he hath . " Despite his initial and understandable reluc- tance , he moves by the scene's close to obey Beatrice's demands ...
... Claudio . Hero , whose salient characteristics are her youth , her silence , and her di- minutiveness ( she is " Leonato's short daughter ' ' ) , similarly does lit- tle to establish in Much Ado about Nothing the contrast between two ...
... Claudio that he shall " mourn , / . . . And wish he had not so accus'd her ; / No , though he thought his accusation true " ( 4.1.224 , 230-33 ) , whereas Claudio agrees to honor Hero and marry her cousin only after he learns of her ...