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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... created : and it is questioned " ( 197 , Edwards 70 ) . But if Berry and Edwards approach the issue of comic closure gingerly and analyze the presence of tonal richness with elegant tact , others are less subtle . The darkening of ...
... created an atmosphere dominated by gaiety ( perhaps the favorite word of commentators on this play ) and undisturbed by either threats or prohibitions . Don John's very presence may of course be vaguely menacing , and his taciturnity in ...
... , offi- ciousness , narcissism , self - righteousness , onanistic imaginings , and fundamental obtuseness - is not created by the maliciousness of those acting against him . It is simply there : 114 Shakespeare and the Ends of Comedy.