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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... Viola's impatience as a loyal messenger and her jealousy of a beautiful rival to Olivia's mocking repartee and her sudden recognition of an access of love . This episode possesses such tonal variety that no criticism can do justice to ...
... Viola speaks her own mind ( or her own heart ) : " It gives a very echo to the seat / Where Love is thron'd " ( 20-22 ) . The love between them , which only Viola can speak of , and then only in terms closed to Orsino's understanding ...
... Viola and Orsino come together in a wholly credible and persuasive way . The tonal sureness of this scene is major source of both its dramatic power and its clarity . It demonstrates early in the play the rightness of the design that ...