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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... function chiefly as a means of delivering the play's meaning . Those critics who aggran- dize closure - both those who follow Barber in finding " no other final scene ... so completely without irony about the joys it cele- brates ...
... function is to fulfill the expectations set up for him at this point in the comedy . How completely this is so appears in the fact that it is Leonato , not Beatrice , who first exploits the preparation of the scene's opening section ...
Ejner J. Jensen. carrying out the technical function of exposition . Again , the per- formance of that function is rather flat and mechanical , qualities that support Harold Jenkins's view that in the play's first act " Shakespeare's ...