... aspects of the two character groups in the play, Didi-Gogo and Pozzo-Lucky: first in Act I and then, with at least the possibility of significant change in mind (a possibility too often assumed not to exist), in the succeeding act. Certainly, boredom is the mode of life of Didi and Gogo as we...

... in Grose’s discourse as well. The results of the interactions of these voices are remarkably persistent- giving rise to the implication that they owe to “Milton.” On the one hand, there are prophetic, vehement voices, finding “lucky words.” They build on “ per son a 1 his tory ,” temporary...

... reluctantly, outlined the ethical implications of his comic dismantlement in conversation with Klaus Herm, the actor who played Lucky in the 1974 production of Godot at the Schiller Theatre in Berlin: Herm: He gives Estragon once, a long look. What do you mean to say with this long look? Beckett: It’s...

... MARGARET DRABBLE ample, seems alternately choosing and fated. This ambivalence is cen- tral to the novel. Frances does feel exceptionally lucky, particularly in the relationship with Karel, and Stephen’s farewell letter defines their difference as a given: “. . . don’t think I haven’t been...

... the idols of its cave. The civilizing conversation with the past that “runs a course of lucky events,” as Frost says, traces the path of human bewilderment as it goes.12 The “untimely” relation to the past that Nietzsche described helps explain the great attractiveness of Todorov’s theory of genres...

... was reciprocated by Kean’s having such a capable critic, or, as stated by Hazlitt’s biographer: “Hazlitt was perhaps lucky that his dkbut synchronised so nearly with that of an actor such as Kean. But if he was lucky, Kean was lucky too Since Hazlitt reported at considerable length on all of Kean’s...

... at the feeling of being one of many in a lucky cohort of literary historians to benefit from his incisive feedback and unstinting editorial generosity. An editor’s work often goes unrecognized, yet Marshall’s role in shaping and progressing literary history has left an indelible mark on both the discipline...

... of absurdist drama as Jarry’s prototype clown P&re Ubu, or Beckett’s clownish varieties as represented by Didi, Gogo, Pozzo, and Lucky, or even the new working-class clown now emerging in the recent farces of Henry Livings. I am saying, in effect, that the story of the fool is not over, that drama...

... on management rather than reception. It serves Grose to break down the distinction between Milton’s prose and verse, an effort I heartily applaud. It acknowledges that “lucky words” are not always efficacious, and it generates a complex sense of writing and the voices in writing. At the same time...

...). Performing a New France Don’s anxieties in the Mad Men pilot ostensibly stem from his hav- ing nothing to pitch to Lucky Strike, the rm’s biggest account. The entire episode is framed by a marketing problem: how does one adver- tise an addictive...

... of costumes and masks. Eliza Haywood also portrays a young man and woman who do not know that they are siblings and who love one another passionately. But Felisinda and Ferdinand0 in The Force of Nature; or; The Lucky Disappointment ( 1724) were raised together in the same household, and “they began...

..., for instance, suggests the alternative title “What Makes Jimmy iVost felt, however, that they could at best excuse, as the high spirits of a brilliant prodigy, but should also castigate, as the low seriousness of a very young and lucky man, such a free and easy tampering with the sober truth...

... in literary history. When Watkins speaks of Spenser’s evidently lucky “escape from Ariostan influence” (103) as a parallel to Redcrosse’s liberation from the clutches of Duessa, we might suppose that he is a Spenserian who takes his Protestantism straight, with no Italianate chaser...

... thought that the time was ripe to place into the pattern such figures of absurdist drama as Jarry’s prototype clown P&re Ubu, or Beckett’s clownish varieties as represented by Didi, Gogo, Pozzo, and Lucky, or even the new working-class clown now emerging in the recent farces of Henry Livings...

... to the lucky bachelors at Temple Court. At a deeper level the sketch contrasts men exempt from the biological burdens of child-birth to women, victims of the gestation process. The mean- ing, to be sure, is thinly veiled by symbolism and implication but such a disguise was necessary if Melville...

... Oroonsko 1689 Lucky Mistake Nun w Perjured Beauty Nun or Fair VowBreaker Considering first the five novels with settings which Mrs. Behn could not have drawn from personal experience, it is apparent that they are all of the French-Italian romance type...

... pampered dog, Lucky — Ziva’s sister — exclaims, “That’s how it is when luck is on your side” (122). Lucky’s name at once signals, literally, the arbitrariness of her higher standing and, indexically, the arbitrari- ness of naming practices generally. Thus Lucky...

... in his “starrebut, if so, he does not mention it; perhaps Rosalind and lucky accident resolve his prob- lem before melancholy can set in; possibly he recognizes Rosalind during the courtship scenes, though the text hardly bears this out; possibly the mere presence of his lady-love, though...

... and 1990s — I am thinking in particular of Sue-Ellen Case, Janelle Reinelt, Elin Diamond, and Vicki Patraka — and he welcomed my own early work with generosity and interest. I was never lucky enough to be his student in the customary sense, but in addition to all the things I learned from him as his...

... this and much more beside. For example, his mother’s grief over his taking arms ; her interest in his manners, which almost turns the romance into a courtesy-book;21 the notion that he was a lucky innocent (Diimmling)22 who with boyish energy stumbled from one blunder to another, and by sheer...