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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... final scene ... so completely without irony about the joys it cele- brates " ( 187 ) and those who stress the play's ironies , discovering in the last scene disquieting evidence of similarities between Venice and Belmont see the ...
... 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 pleasant as ever he was , " and his ...
... final judgment , accepting Olivia's view but imposing on the steward a responsibility as well : Pursue him , and entreat him to a peace ; He hath not told us of the captain yet . ( 380-81 ) In doing so , he fulfills the last necessity ...