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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... shake [ him ] up " but his aggressive and calcu- lated reaction to that shaking up . The encounter with Oliver , then , provides Shakespeare with fur- ther room for exposition , but it provides Orlando with a space in which to act out ...
... Shake- speare supply it with a satisfactory comic ending or , conversely , when they look to it for a severe justice answerable to the malicious intentions of Angelo . Neither of these endings fits the play Shake- speare wrote . As in ...
... Shake- speare : Much Ado about Nothing and As You Like It [ London : Macmillan , 1979 ] , p . 42 ) . Leo Salingar , in Shakespeare and the Traditions of Comedy ( Cam- bridge : Cambridge UP , 1974 ) , touches upon this matter when he ...