Shakespeare and the Ends of ComedyIndiana University Press, 1991 - 158 páginas "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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... tone of the earlier casket scenes . Now the tone is suspense and a sort of constrained joyous- ness that struggles for release . Portia is emotionally with Bassanio in his deliberations ; and Nerissa , formerly her partner in mockery ...
... tone of the play's ending . That tone is not new , of course , as my earlier remarks on its pre - enactments estab- lish ; it is , however , worth observing here its effect on the second love plot . But there are other matters as well ...
... tone and onstage audience , 36 ; function of song , 56 ; two worlds of love , 61 ; closure and revelation , 75 ; method of opening , 87-88 ; closure as critical issue in understanding , 99 , 109-17 ; plot and plotting , 100 , 102– 106 ; ...
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The Aggrandizement of Closure | 1 |
The Comic Pleasures | 22 |
three | 34 |
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