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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... responses . Primary among those pleasures are those derived from the skillful use of comic preparation . Before nearly ... response from the audience : this is the joke they have waited for . Illustrations are as numerous as the comics ...
... response to Leonato's some- what hackneyed but incongruous joke about his wife's fidelity— Hero's mother " hath many times told " him that he was Hero's fa- ther , says Leonato , and Benedick follows this with " Were you in doubt , sir ...
... response to the play for generations of critics . From the effusiveness of Mrs. Jameson through the cynicism of Shaw and up to and including critics of far more rigid methodologies , she has been almost universally beloved : She is like ...