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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... audience from the action , enabling us as readers or viewers to judge the events from a remove , seeing on one side of the exchange a performer or performers ( whose skills we , along with the characters in the onstage audience , may ...
... audience , they are assuaged for the audience in the theatre and given comic point through Portia's control of pace and nuance . This dual working , in fact , may provide validation in the theatre for both Gratiano's repeated and nearly ...
... audience and making the comedy's close a final itera- tion designed not to suggest dis - ease but to confirm the essential rightness of the spectators ' ongoing responses . Primary among those pleasures are those derived from the ...