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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... pattern of romantic comedy with the multiple marriages at the end , but with the marriages divorced from desire , Shakespeare makes even more striking the basic insta- bility and tenuousness of the relationships , which exist by the ...
... pattern , it defines that pattern . Approaching the play with Barber and Frye and their numerous followers to guide us , we are in familiar territory and know far more of what the location implies than Rosalind can imagine when she says ...
... pattern ob- served at several points in its unfolding . As it manifests itself in the comedy's closing moments , that pattern provides us with a sense of incompleteness that is one hallmark of satire.23 If that seems less than we desire ...