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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... sort of wistful challenge : " There does seem to be something wrong with a theory of Shakespeare's comedy which implies that all his successes are so considerably blemished " ( 7 ) . Since that time , critical discussion of the comedies ...
... sort deplored by Rees and Hawkins , and why such criticism seems invar- iably to focus on the play's ending as the point at which it asserts its meaning . In a general way , these schematic approaches arise because the tendency of most ...
... sort of question when actresses key on the line as the opening of Viola's love interest in Orsino . 20. I recall a particularly leaden few minutes in the National Theatre production of 1979 , directed by John Dexter . Sara Kestelman and ...