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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... marriage , the final cause of comedy . " ' 15 The critics I have been discussing differ from Frye and Barber in a variety of ways . Some , such as Ralph Berry , deny the celebratory element in Shakespearean comedy in order to replace it ...
... marriage " ( 36 , italics mine ) ; and she is even more explicit about the relation- ship of closure and meaning when she describes the end of Measure for Measure : " By reverting to the pattern of romantic comedy with the multiple ...
... marriage made in heaven , but it is made secure by this episode in Orsino's court . Thus Shakespeare's management of tone in 2.4 of Twelfth Night takes interpretive pressure off the play's end- ing , whose key union has been anticipated ...