Shakespeare and the Ends of ComedyIndiana University Press, 1991 - 158 Seiten "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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... Jaques— “ As the ox hath his bow , sir , the horse his curb , and the falcon her bells , so man hath his desires ; and as pigeons bill , so wedlock would be nibbling " ( 3.3.79–82 ) —he describes it as " one of those moments . . . when ...
... Jaques . That introduction , by the First Lord , is per- formative comedy of a complex kind . The first part of the report is pure description , and its particularity and strange emotional weight must make the First Lord's role ...
... Jaques " It will make you melancholy , Monsieur Jaques " ; " My voice is ragged , I know I cannot please you " ; " What you will , Mon- sieur Jaques " ( 2.5.10-11 , 15-16 , 20 ) —one hears a tone of light mock- ery ; Amiens is being ...
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The Aggrandizement of Closure | 1 |
The Comic Pleasures | 22 |
three | 34 |
Urheberrecht | |
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