Author: Susan Blackaby
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Category : Reading (Elementary)
Languages : en
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Category : Theater
Languages : en
Pages : 298

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Publisher: Modern Curriculum Press
ISBN: 9780765234568
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Author: Lewis Clinton Strang
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Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 400

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Author: John Galt
Publisher: London, Colburn
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Category : Acting and actors
Languages : en
Pages : 324

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Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 1002

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Category : College and school drama
Languages : en
Pages : 438

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Author: Henry Charles Beeching
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Languages : en
Pages : 134

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Author: Charles Eyre Pascoe
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Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 484

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Author: Stuart M. Tave
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226790206
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 294

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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.