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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... direct experience of the work's movement . Only when its structure be- comes accessible to us can we engage in criticism proper . Thus Frye argues that " the point at which direct experience and criticism begin to come into alignment ...
... direct his choice . Certainly the influences I have just described control most stage versions of these scenes . The Morocco in Olivier's National Theatre production was only an extreme manifestation of the ethnocentrism and racial ...
... direct our attention to the nexus of closure and mean- ing . As in so many similar cases , critical gains are offset in part by corresponding critical losses . What the comedy reflects and what it achieves obscure - in fact , displace ...