17. Twelfth Night: Dark Clouds over Illyria

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. 1. Etymologies: Getting to the Root of It 1
5. 2. The Song of the Komos 10
6. 3. The Lyre and the Phallus 27
7. 4. Aristophanes: The One and Only? 44
8. 5. Failure and Success 68
9. 6. The Birds: The Uncensored Fantasy 85
10. 7. Requiem for a Genre? 101
11. 8. The Comic Catastrophe 124
12. 9. O Menander! O Life! 153
13. 10. Plautus Makes an Entrance 183
14. 11. A Plautine Problem Play 205
15. 12. Terence: The African Connection 220
16. 13. The Mother-in-Law of Modern Comedy 239
17. 14. Machiavelli: The Comedy of Evil 255
18. 15. Marlowe: Schade and Freude 273
19. 16. Shakespeare: Errors and Eros 286
20. 17. Twelfth Night: Dark Clouds over Illyria 305
21. 18. Molière: The Class of ’68 329
22. 19. The Fox, the Fops, and the Factotum 363
23. 20. Comedy Explodes 403
24. 21. Beckett: The Death of Comedy 431
25. Coda 453
26. Notes 459
27. Index 577