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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... problem comedies , es- pecially Measure for Measure , illustrate this difficulty most strikingly . To accommodate the diversity of characters - with their weaknesses , obstinacies , unawarenesses , willful disobediences , and silences ...
... problem in critical method , serves instead to reveal a more fundamental problem . If the key to a play's meaning lies in a final , single impression , its end is likely to be subjected to extraordinarily intense critical scrutiny . Fur ...
... problems it exhibits and the points of attack chosen by its many critics are remarkably similar to those engendered ... problem comedies , it is also the case that emphasis on closure has been a central feature of most of the approaches ...