Pierrot : : A Critical History of a Mask / / Robert F. Storey.

Robert Storey's lively and gracefully written study of Pierrot is the first scholarly history of this fascinating popular figure. Unlike previous studies of commedia dell'arte characters; this book focuses as much on Pierrot as a literary metaphor and mask as on the roles and dimensions of...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1931-1979
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]
©1978
Year of Publication:2014
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
Series:Princeton Legacy Library ; 611
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Physical Description:1 online resource (274 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • List of Illustrations
  • Preface
  • I. Origins and Birth
  • II. L'Education Foraine: The Eighteenth Century
  • III. Gilles and Clown
  • IV. Romantic Adolescence: The Nineteenth Century
  • V. Pierrot Fumiste: Jules Laforgue
  • VI. Pierrot Ephèbe: T. S. Eliot and Wallace Stevens
  • Bibliography of Principal Works Consulted
  • Index