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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... never stale in thrifty mind . -Jessica caps with a couplet of her own : Farewell , and if my fortune be not cross'd , I have a father , you a daughter , lost . ( 54-7 ) that marks this scene with its final economic irony . " Discrepant ...
... never wholly integrated into the play's overall move- ment . At times , his rather localized performances are wonderfully effective ; at others , as I have suggested earlier , they seem a needless effort . But if Touchstone's efforts ...
... never promised— “ He will bear you easily and reins well " ( 3.4.321 , 323–34 ) . What follows in the train of this great comic moment is the unfolding of layer upon layer of misapprehen- sion and masking . But that unfolding should not ...
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The Aggrandizement of Closure | 1 |
The Comic Pleasures | 22 |
three | 34 |
Urheberrecht | |
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