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As usual, try getting a grown-up to read them--you can hear them muttering "Fairies? Come on!" in their heads.
Its boudoir is an entire forest, symbolizing Nature itself, where mortals and fairies, regals and bumpkins, make love and war, where passion becomes arbitrary and paramours interchangeable; and its last act is a riotously bungled tragedy-within-a-comedy (a celebratory performance by a troupe of "rude mechanicals") that's an ironic comment on the trivial pursuits that have preceded it.
The fairies that swirl around these settings, first as Tinkerbell-ish balls of light and then as conventional storybook sprites, belong to a different age and culture.
Above all, Foster is ruthless about Yeats' ruthlessness: He shows how Yeats went about building modern Irish literature in Dublin and in London at the end of the 19 th century, and how Irish goblins and fairies were foot soldiers in that campaign.
But these stories are certainly not children's literature: The fairies are heartless and creepy (which makes them human enough that they're weirdly touching).