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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... tion " —and Young here , like Jenkins , stands as a convenient repre- sentative of widely held critical attitudes - is likely to appear to members of a popular audience as a clash of attitudes defined chiefly in terms of character . No ...
... tion and far from being problematic , is a dramatically skillful realiza- tion of connections prepared for and pre - enacted in the play's earlier events . It provides satisfaction not because it answers questions but because it ...
... tion available to those in the seats of authority ; and for the Duke , the teeming underworld of Vienna that has grown corrupt under his ineffective rule . It seems almost willfully incorrect , therefore , to speak of these characters ...