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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... effect , they put on a show for Anto- nio , reinforcing one another's observations and supplying an energy that refuses to allow his lassitude its dampening dominance . After Solanio and Salerio exit , Gratiano continues their function ...
... effect is to validate our comic trust , to confirm our faith that , as Bertrand Evans would have it , " the world of The Merchant of Venice is one in which goodness and mirth prevail " ( 66 ) . This device of the onstage audience is the ...
... effect of Benedick's domination of this final scene is to throw the " problem " of Hero and Claudio ( indeed , to place their whole relationship ) into a decidedly secondary position . Benedick in this final scene is once again " as ...