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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... seems worth pointing out that equally problematic and valuable critical issues present them- selves in this play's early acts : Feste's absence from the letter scene ; Olivia's easy forgetting of both her father and her brother ; the ...
... seems highly artificial . The contrast between Illyria and Messina is more than striking . As Orsino's dukedom emerges , it does so in a series of brief scenes , each of which defines a significant dramatic ques- tion . Will Orsino win ...
... seem more important here as vehicles for performance . Thus Anne Barton's laconic note to Rosalind's spirited contradiction of her cousin seems wholly appropriate . Rosalind says , " Nay , now thou goest from Fortune's office to ...