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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... close for evidence designed to clinch his interpretation . Moody finds that an emphasis on irony is one way to " get close to the final effect of the play , " and he quotes approvingly John B. Shackford's judgment : " Inside the hollow ...
... close to obey Beatrice's demands and the claims of love , recognizing in them a stronger force than those exerted on behalf of Claudio and the bonds of friendship . Here , then , and throughout the rest of the play , Beatrice and Ben ...
... close . Viola's story beginning " My father had a daughter loved a man " illustrates , from a point of view ... close of the play , especially those who find in it hints of darkness , fasten on this apparent incompleteness . Yet the ...
Contents
The Aggrandizement of Closure | 1 |
The Comic Pleasures | 22 |
three | 34 |
Copyright | |
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