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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... lovers , and the suitability of the marital arrangements ( including the union of Sir Toby and Maria ) ; and on Feste's final song . The following comments suggest , in brief compass , the variety of conclu- sions such emphases may ...
... lovers themselves may lapse into old habits ( 5.2.42–94 ) ; but the anticipa- tion of the play's final tone at the close of the spying scenes and its enhancement in the chapel scene allow us as spectators one further fulfillment of ...
... lovers.16 Although Prouty confuses art and life somewhat in this discussion , seeing one pair of lovers as realistic because they adhere to a common social practice and the other pair as realistic because they avoid the behavior of ...