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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... critical pressure on a narrowly circumscribed set of data : the absence of Sir Toby and Sir Andrew ( after 5.1.208 ) , Maria's total absence in the final scene , Malvolio's exit line , the fate of the captain , Orsino's reluctance to ...
... critical attention . Although I discuss their opposing views in chapter 1 , I want to bring them into the argument at this point precisely because they offer a paradig- matic instance of the critical situation I am describing here . The ...
... critical opinion of Angelo in Measure for Measure , 124 Comedy : modern critical emphasis on closure , xi ; nature of in As You Like It , 83 Complexity : consequences of emphasis on closure , 16-18 Costume : Isabella's character in ...