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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... nature . Thus Furness objects to the way Shake- speare brings Much Ado to a close : This is the only play of ... natures of the partici- pants disclose themselves in a way alien to mere comedy ” ( 12 ) . Joseph A. Bryant , Jr. , is ...
... nature of comedy in a play whose meanings have been canvassed exten- sively but whose comic energies as they unfold moment by moment on the stage have received far less attention . What is the nature of the comedy in As You Like It ...
... nature of man , 127-28 Stage : play as succession of dramatic moments and consequences of em- phasis on closure , 19. See also Play ; Theatre Stereotypes : ethnocentrism and racism in The Merchant of Venice , 33 Stoll , E. E ...
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The Aggrandizement of Closure | 1 |
The Comic Pleasures | 22 |
three | 34 |
Urheberrecht | |
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