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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... dark comedies . " ' " Less concerned with questions of the playwright's development , Richard A. Levin is forthright about his intention to develop only the antiromantic alter- native of each of the plays ( as though criticism were ...
... darkness to be given more prominence in Twelfth Night . Whatever the precise placement they assign to Much Ado about ... dark , problematic - a pattern , in other words , that shows Shakespeare's growth in terms calculated to appeal to a ...
... darkness of comedies , 7 ; Malvolio's treatment of captain in Twelfth Night , 114 Leggatt , Alexander : influence on au- thor's approach , xii ; on unitarian crit- icism , 17 ; Twelfth Night compared to Jonson's comedies , 100 Lever , J ...