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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... Bassanio ) , and a distancing of the 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 ...
... Bassanio's attraction to Portia and the scene's energetic and lightened close as testimony to the persuasive function of Bassanio's onstage per- formance . Any number of critics have claimed that 1.2 begins on the same note as the ...
... Bassanio's casket scene ( 3.2 ) is another matter altogether . One of Shakespeare's great gifts as a comic playwright is his sure control of tone . Here that gift is revealed in the strikingly different atmosphere of a scene that we ...