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Lewis Carrolls Geschichte von der kleinen Alice, die in ein Kaninchenloch fällt und sich im Wunderland wiederfindet, ist eines der beliebtesten Kindermärchen. Auf der Suche nach dem weißen Kaninchen trifft Alice die ausgeflipptesten und lustigsten Typen: den verrückten Hutmacher, die irre Lachkatze, die kluge Raupe und viele andere. Ihre Abenteuer im Wunderland entwickeln sich zu einer magischen Achterbahnfahrt voller spannender und fasziniere...

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Excerpt from Autobiography and Reminiscences of John W. Carroll The writer of these pages was born in Henderson County, Tennessee, Nov. 28th, 1841, near 57 years ago. My earliest recollections of life-are those of absolute pleasure, associated as they are with the remembrance of one of the kindest of mothers, a father who looked after my interest, a doting grand father, who lived' just across the farm half a mile from our house, who had me be...

This book contends that in Love's Labour's Lost Shakespeare sought to discover the ways in which the imagination uses and abuses language. The author's critical reading shows that the characters are endowed with a wide variety of rhetorical disguises. Each assumes that his verbal and social point of view is correct, and the limitations and virtues of each viewpoint are explored as the drama unfolds. In an elegant examination of theme and style...

This book argues that the idea of metamorphosis is central to both the theory and practice of Shakespearean comedy. It offers a synthesis of several major themes of Shakespearean comedy--identity, change, desire, marriage, and comic form--under the master trope of transformation.Originally published in 1985.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the dis...

Investigating representations of poverty in Tudor-Stuart England, Fat King, Lean Beggar reveals the gaps and outright contradictions in what poets, pamphleteers, government functionaries, and dramatists of the period said about beggars and vagabonds. William C. Carroll analyzes these conflicting "truths" and reveals the various aesthetic, political, and socio-economic purposes Renaissance constructions of beggary were made to serve. Carroll be...