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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... issue in the criticism of Shakespeare's comedies . For some of the comic dramas this emphasis is of course not new at all . Dr. Johnson , one remembers , could not reconcile his heart to Bertram . But then he saw Shakespeare as ...
... issue of " sadness " that keeps it at a level of particularity and comic comment and prevents it from establishing itself as the key element of the play's atmosphere . When at last Antonio and Bassanio are alone , the merchant's first ...
... issue of closure in other genres . See Smith , Poetic Closure : A Study of How Poems End ( Chicago : U of Chicago P , 1968 ) , and Kermode , The Sense of an Ending ( New York : Oxford UP , 1967 ) . 24. Peter Erickson , Patriarchal ...