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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... kind of arbitrary arrest . By means of art , the flux of life has been stilled . " ' 36 The development Barton traces in Shakespearean comedy finds the plays up to Twelfth Night " essentially teleological " —i.e . , they are “ works of ...
... kind over his work in the other . Rather , it is that the criti- cal approaches to tragedy are enormously varied , while discussions of the comedies are dominated by two seminal figures whose work shares a single and directive emphasis ...
... kind of imbalance I have just described . He is , after all , involved in a study of sources , and the likely sources for one set of lovers are both more numerous and more detailed than the sources for the other pair . But the ...
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The Aggrandizement of Closure | 1 |
The Comic Pleasures | 22 |
three | 34 |
Urheberrecht | |
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