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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... spirit of these plays toward a search for meaning and an assertion of their teleological design . It brings five representative comedies into a new perspective and illustrates how they unfold as works written for the stage . xii ...
... spirit of unrestrained exuberance . Examples are available in abun- dance : Launce and his dog in The Two Gentlemen of Verona ( 2.3.1-32 ) ; the academicians turned sonneteers in Love's Labor's Lost ( 4.3 ) ; the conclusion of the ...
... spirit in the joyous world of Illyria . Dissatisfaction with the play's close on this score is not at all a recent phenomenon ; John Russell Brown speaks of it in his 1955 survey of interpretation as arising from criticism based on the ...