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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... that the form itself promises . In the most familiar readings , the com- edies appear tainted by a sort of aesthetic original sin Crowning the End: The Aggrandizement of Closure in the Reading of Shakespeare's Comedies.
... readings of Bar- ber and Frye , nevertheless makes closure the key element in his reading of the comedies : " I should prefer to see the conclusions of the middle comedies less as ' clarifications ' than as provisional re - groupings of ...
... reading as a procedure continues in new ways and in places where we might not expect to find it , and , sec- ond , that an emphasis on the conjunction of closure and meaning remains one of the commonest outcomes of such a procedure ...