Tolkien and Shakespeare
Tolkien and Shakespeare: essays on shared themes and language Janet Brennan Croft (Editor)
Publisher: Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Company, c2007.
ISBN: 0786428279
DDC: 823.912
LCC: PR6039
Edition: (pbk. : alk. paper)
Summary:
"Tolkien and Shakespeare: These essays focus on the broad themes and
motifs which concerned both authors. They seek to uncover
Shakespeare's influence on Tolkien through echoes of the playwright's
themes and even word choices, discovering how Tolkien used, revised,
updated, "corrected," and otherwise held an ongoing dialogue with
Shakespeare's works"--Provided by publisher.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Tolkien and Shakespeare: influences, echoes, revisions / Janet
Brennan Croft -- Clashing mythologies: the elves of Shakespeare and
Tolkien / Allegra Johnston -- "How now, spirit! Wither wander you?"
diminution: the Shakespearean misconception and the Tolkienian ideal
of faërie / Jessica Burke -- Just a little bit fey: what's at the
bottom of The lord of the rings and A midsummer night's dream? /
Rebecca-Anne C. Do Rozario -- "Perilously fair": Titania, Galadriel,
and the fairy queen of medieval romance / Romuald I. Lakowski -- "We
few, we happy few": war and glory in Henry V and The lord of the
rings / Daniel Timmons -- The person of a prince: echoes of Hamlet in
J.R.R. Tolkien's The lord of the rings / Kayla McKinney Wiggins --
How "all that glisters is not gold" became "all that is gold does not
glitter": Aragorn's debt to Shakespeare / Judith J. Kollmann -- "The
shadow of succession": Shakespeare, Tolkien, and the conception of
history / Annalisa Castaldo -- "The rack of this tough world": the
influence of King Lear on Lord of the rings / Leigh Smith --
Shakespearean catharsis in the fiction of J.R.R. Tolkien / Anne C.
Petty -- Prospero's books, Gandalf's staff: the ethics of magic in
Shakespeare and Tolkien / Nicholas Ozment -- Merlin, Prospero,
Saruman and Gandalf: corrosive uses of power in Shakespeare and
Tolkien / Frank P. Riga -- "Bid the tree unfix his earthbound root":
motifs from Macbeth in J.R.R. Tolkien's The lord of the rings / Janet
Brennan Croft -- Hidden in plain view: strategizing unconventionality
in Shakespeare's and Tolkien's portraits of women / Maureen Thum --
Something is stirring in the east: racial identity, confronting the
"other," and miscegenation in Othello and The lord of the rings /
Robert Gehl -- Self-cursed, night-fearers, and usurpers: Tolkien's
Atani and Shakespeare's Men / Anna Fåhraeus -- Gollum and Caliban:
evolution and design / Lisa Hopkins -- Of two minds: Gollum and
Othello / Charles Keim.
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