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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... leads to a fundamental confusion . Because a focusing on closure often implies formal resolution of a play's difficulties , it may lead to judgments about the settling of accounts , a sort of moral bookkeeping . How is Shylock left at ...
Ejner J. Jensen. In Much Ado about Nothing , the route that leads to Benedick's " Strike up , pipers ! " affords a ... leads directly to the first appearance of Dogberry and Verges , the charge to the Watch , and the determination of ...
... leads to her victimization and greater pressure for her brother's death ; in Angelo's accession to power , which leads to the overthrow of his principles and recogni- tion of a “ sensual race " he had formerly controlled ; and in the ...
Contents
The Aggrandizement of Closure | 1 |
The Comic Pleasures | 22 |
three | 34 |
Copyright | |
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