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Review Essay: David Bergeron, Shakespeare's Romances And The Royal Family, Dorothy C. Jones
Review Essay: David Bergeron, Shakespeare's Romances And The Royal Family, Dorothy C. Jones
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David Bergeron, Shakespeare's Romances and the Royal Family, University of Kansas Press, 1985. $25.00
The Sense Of An Ending In Shakespeare's Early Comedies, Deborah T. Curren Aquino
The Sense Of An Ending In Shakespeare's Early Comedies, Deborah T. Curren Aquino
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About Shakespeare's endings, Samuel Johnson wrote:
in many of his plays the latter part is evidently neglected. When he found himself near the end of his work, and in view of his reward, he shortened the labor to snatch the profit. He therefore remits his efforts where he should most vigorously exert them, and his catastrophe is improbably produced or imperfectly represented. (71-72)
In the twentieth century, Ernest Schanzer has echoed Dr. Johnson's opinion in his commentary on A Midsummer Night's Dream: "For sheer economy and multiplicity of effect it [the first scene] has no equal in any of …