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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... less steadily throughout this book . Other debts are easier to be explicit about and no less pleasurable to record . John Knott helped to arrange the leave that allowed me to begin this work , and Bob Weisbuch was a welcome , even ...
... less and less valid . Measure for Measure , a critical hard case , is different only in degree from the earlier comedies in this respect . Yet precisely because of the play's multiplicity and felt complexity it urges the need for an ...
... less than we desire , we must accept that Shakespeare , in the play he wrote , promises us no more . Notes One . Crowning the End 1. John Russell Brown Comic Vitality and the Cost of Fantasy in Measure for Measure 137.