Research Catalog

Lovers, clowns, and fairies : an essay on comedies

Title
Lovers, clowns, and fairies : an essay on comedies / Stuart M. Tave.
Author
Tave, Stuart M.
Publication
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [1993], ©1993.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Filter by

1 Item

StatusFormatAccessCall NumberItem Location
TextRequest in advance PR631 .T38 1993Off-site

Holdings

Details

Description
xviii, 272 pages; 23 cm
Subject
  • English drama (Comedy) > History and criticism
  • Humorous stories, English > History and criticism
  • Characters and characteristics in literature
  • Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 > Comedies
  • Fairies in literature
  • Clowns in literature
  • Love in literature
  • Comic, The
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
1. A league without the town: A Midsummer Night's Dream -- 2. These mountains make you dream of women: Man and Superman -- 3. What are men to rocks and mountains? Pride and Prejudice -- 4. All beyond High Park's a desert: The Man of Mode -- 5. Bevil Junior's lodgings: The Conscious Lovers -- 6. A league below the city: Measure for Measure -- 7. To the hospital of the Incurabili: Volpone -- 8. The wrong time to give a dance: The Cherry Orchard -- 9. Getting forwards in two different journies together: Tristram Shandy.
ISBN
  • 0226790193 (alk. paper)
  • 0226790207 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
92042650
OCLC
  • 27066258
  • ocm27066258
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries