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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... function chiefly as a means of delivering the play's meaning . Those critics who aggran- dize closure - both those who follow Barber in finding " no other final scene . . . so completely without irony about the joys it cele- brates ...
... function as Orsino's " fancy's queen " ; but Olivia and Sebastian are already wed . " Another Hero " must be unveiled in Much Ado about Nothing , but the audience knows that Benedick and Beatrice have come to an agreement earlier in the ...
... function in Much Ado about Nothing , 56 , 143n - 144n ; function in Twelfth Night , 109–10 Nature : fundamental opposition in Mea- sure for Measure , 128-29 Nevo , Ruth : closure of As You Like It , 77 New historicism : Montrose and As ...