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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... experience of a liter- ary work : we are in a " precritical " state , participating in a direct experience of the work's movement . Only when its structure be- comes accessible to us can we engage in criticism proper . Thus Frye argues ...
... experience that ought properly to be seen as both the body and the soul of the comedy . A third consequence of the habit of " crowning the end " appears in the mismatch between what might be called critical unitarianism ( a desire to ...
... experience — is the conversion experiences of Oliver and Duke Frederick . The second is the masquelike appearance of Hymen . The third , recently become more problematic under the pressure of feminist readings of As You Like It , is ...