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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... spectator to enact in physical terms a transformation to animality that will soon reveal itself in his language and ... spectators an unequiv- ocal attitude toward the Jew . What is there in the trial scene that keeps it in the realm of ...
... spectators of the play . Given the tendency to locate meaning at the point of closure , it is not surprising that this passage , prelude to the brothers ' reconciliation and the redemption of Oliver , should be seen by some as central ...
... spectator of the brothers ' argument , or he may be both silent and concealed from Oliver's view . Whatever the case ... spectators who know King Lear are bound to detect echoes of Edmund's plea to Nature in Orlando's setting " blood ...