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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... judgments about the money - lender , but in light of the play's other events , the servant's judgment is hardly crucial in shap- ing an audience's view of his master . Jessica's two brief moments alone on the stage serve primarily to ...
... judgments in creating the play from its sources provide an inviting field for critical speculation and analysis.15 The ... judgment than that of romantic love . The public denunciation of Hero is an unpleasant 64 Shakespeare and the Ends ...
... judgments proceed in the midst of life . Like life's own judgments , those made at the close of Measure for Measure are provisional and contingent . If the Duke's arrangements seem fragile and imperfect , they are at least consistent in ...