Shakespeare and the Ends of ComedyIndiana University Press, 1991 - 158 pàgines "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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... opening events of Much Ado , to find in the play , as the Mueschkes do , a " concern with the fallibility of the senses and the ravages of mortality " and to see it as evoking " the inexpressible about the riddle of existence and the ...
... opening of As You Like It shares something with each of the plays that surround it . Like Much Ado about Nothing , it engages us at the level of plotting rather than plot . Orlando is determined to escape the oppression of his brother ...
... opening action , 86-87 , 88 ; power of realism , 143n ; as most communal of comedies , 143n ; suitability for special- ized analysis , 144n Mueschke , Paul and Miriam : Much Ado about Nothing and Othello , 48 Music : function in Much ...
Continguts
The Aggrandizement of Closure | 1 |
The Comic Pleasures | 22 |
three | 34 |
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