peteg's blog - noise - books - 2018 04 17 FrancineProse TheGloriousOnes

Francine Prose: The Glorious Ones.

Tue, Apr 17, 2018./noise/books | Link

Kindle. A very early (1974) dry run for her mature work Mister Monkey based on the classic and cliched Italian commedia dell'arte theatre form circa C17th. Some of the members of the itinerant troupe of actors were apparently historical personages, and certainly all are stereotypes (no! archetypes). Each gets a chapter to say their piece; at the time Prose had yet to master them all. It's fun for what it is. Kirkus Reviews has the salients but otherwise the internet has not gone ape over it.