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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... turns on fundamental questions about the nature of comedy in a play whose meanings have been canvassed exten- sively ... turn thou no more / To seek a living in our territory " ( 3.1.6-8 ) . Orlando is thus , from the viewpoint of plot ...
... turns on Oliver , there are no " woeful pageants " in the theatre of As You Like It . Performative occasions abound ... turn as Ganymed - as - Rosalind instructing her admirer in the ways of courtship : " Why , how now , Orlando , where ...
... turns , or Shakespeare turns her , to enact yet another miraculous appearance , this time to Orsino's clamorous messenger . The care Shakespeare lavishes on plotting of this sort appears in another episode in Twelfth Night , one quite ...