Lovers, Clowns, and Fairies: An Essay on ComediesUniversity of Chicago Press, 15.06.1993 - 272 Seiten Through dreams and shadows and strangeness, through blinding charms and eye-opening counter-charms, through moments of mortification and laughter—thus Stuart M. Tave traces the journey of the lovers, clowns, and fairies who populate comedies from A Midsummer Night's Dream to Waiting for Godot. Tave avoids the pitfalls of theory, taking instead a close look at particular works to give us a sense of the relations between certain dramas and novels that are called comedies. The result is a wonderfully readable book that renews our delight in the enchanting possibilities of literature. A Midsummer Night's Dream, in its "perfection," is Tave's point of departure. Its characters fall neatly into the three groups of Tave's title and fulfill to perfection their functions of desire, foolishness, and power. From the magical concord of Shakespeare's resolution, Tave moves to works whose character face ever greater difficulties in reaching a happy conclusion. From Jonson and Austen to Chekhov and Beckett, he meets comedies on their own terms, illuminating the complex and individual genius of each. A masterpiece of practical criticism, Lovers, Clowns, and Fairies rediscovers the pleasure of reading comedies. |
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A league without the town A Midsummer Nights Dream | 1 |
These mountains make you dream of women Man and Superman | 26 |
What are men to rocks and mountains? Pride and Prejudice | 58 |
All beyond High Parks a desert The Man of Mode | 90 |
Bevil Juniors lodgings The Conscious Lovers | 118 |
A league below the city Measure for Measure | 138 |
To the hospital of the Incurabili Volpone | 174 |
The wrong time to give a dance The Cherry Orchard | 198 |
A pause | 226 |
Getting forwards in two different journies together Tristram Shandy | 243 |
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Angelo Anya begin Bellair Bellinda better Bevil Junior Bingley blind Bonario brother certainly characters Charlotte charm Cherry Orchard Claudio clever clowns Comedy Conscious Lovers Corbaccio course dance Darcy death Demetrius desire Devil Dorimant Dorimant's Duke Duke-Friar Elizabeth Escalus eyes fairies father feel fool Fopling Gaev happy Harriet hear heaven hell Hermia human imagination Isabella Jane Jane Austen journey Juan kind lady language laugh laughter Laurence Sterne live look Lopahin Loveit Lucio Lysander Lyubov magic marry Measure for Measure Medley Midsummer Night's Dream mind mortal mortifying Mosca nature never night Octavius play Pride and Prejudice problem Puck Ramsden says scene Sealand seems Shakespeare Shandy sort speak story strange talk tells Theseus thing tion trick Tristram Tristram Shandy Trofimov truth turns uncle Toby understand Varya vision Volpone Waiting for Godot wants woman word young lovers