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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... failure on both moral and aesthetic grounds . The Shoemaker's Holiday , Dekker's finest play , appeared in 1599 , just at the point when Shakespeare was fashioning the greatest of his romantic comedies . A glance at the bare outline of ...
... failure to deal directly with this play : " What I would have to say about Much Ado About Nothing can largely be inferred from the discussion of the other festive plays " ( 222 ) . This is surprising , I believe , for two reasons ...
... failure of life to achieve the easy victories of comic convention . Its rightness is the rightness of comic drama , an order to which Shakespeare has gained our assent early in the play . Other matters occur or are anticipated early in ...