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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... significance of structure for an understanding of comedy , and he quotes approvingly her dictum : " Destiny in the guise of Fortune is the fabric of comedy " ( 7 ) . Because Berry presents his views with such elegance and subtlety , he ...
... significance , asks to be read allegorically . Not merely the snake and the lioness but the oak , " whose boughs were moss'd with age / And high top bald with dry antiquity , " and even Oliver himself , described as " a wretched ragged ...
... significance , the same pattern appears in Isa- bella's pleading to Claudio , which leads to her victimization and greater pressure for her brother's death ; in Angelo's accession to power , which leads to the overthrow of his ...