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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... play like Twelfth Night resides in its ability to endure and even to nourish such narrowly focused scrutiny . It seems worth pointing out that equally problematic and valuable critical issues present them- selves in this play's early ...
... play . " 4 Twelfth Night affords a variety of similar examples . Critics may focus , at the close , on Malvolio and his place in the play's world ; on the lovers , and the suitability of the marital arrangements ( including the union of ...
... play's end and is thus one more reason for seeing closure as especially important to our efforts to come to criti- cal terms with As You Like It . Rosalind herself remarks on the oddity of her final business in the play : " It is not ...