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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... structure ; and at the source of these approaches stands the work of two key figures , C. L. Barber and Northrop Frye.5 Although the particular emphasis of their anal- yses differs considerably - Frye focusing chiefly on literary ...
... structure . Nevertheless , the tendencies described here are both wide and deep . Even in cases where the critical method is little concerned with structural matters and there- fore unlikely to stress closure , one still finds the ...
... structure intended to be problematic and unsettling . This division of opinion about Measure for Measure , and the dependence of writers on both sides on evidence drawn from the play's ending , should not be seen as invalidating my ...