Shakespeare and the Ends of Comedy"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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... allows Shakespeare to spell out the conditions that the suitors must accept , but more significantly it allows him to illustrate Portia's scrupulous attention to the requirements of her father's will . She is gracious and polite to ...
Ejner J. Jensen. ment . It allows us once again to witness relationships and share emotions that we have already experienced and ratified . Its meaning lies not in a theme discovered in tranquil retrospection but in experi- ence as it ...
... allows them to express their feelings in a context that demands honesty and fair dealing . The two spying scenes define in some ways the dominant tone of Much Ado about Nothing . Involving a trio of male plotters in the first instance ...
Contents
The Aggrandizement of Closure | 1 |
The Comic Pleasures | 22 |
three | 34 |
Copyright | |
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