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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... providing something like what Richard Levin calls for but does not himself provide in his discussion of the ... provides another . The five plays I discuss in detail are The Merchant of Venice , Much Ado about Nothing , As You ...
... provides a survey of the widespread influence of Barber and Frye , documenting the ways in which their views have directed subsequent critics of the comedies to concentrate on the relation of meaning and closure . It seems unnecessary ...
... provides Shakespeare with fur- ther room for exposition , but it provides Orlando with a space in which to act out his aggressiveness and make a case for himself before a sympathetic audience . The self - conscious allusiveness of his ...
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The Aggrandizement of Closure | 1 |
The Comic Pleasures | 22 |
three | 34 |
Urheberrecht | |
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