Tolkien and Shakespeare: Essays on Shared Themes and Language
Tolkien and Shakespeare: Essays on Shared Themes and Language is a 2007 collection of essays dealing with literary comparisons between the works of J.R.R. Tolkien and Shakespeare.
Contents
- Introduction: Tolkien and Shakespeare: Influences, Echoes, Revisions (p. 1)
- FAËRIE
- — "Clashing Mythologies: The Elves of Shakespeare and Tolkien" (p. 9)
- — "'How Now, Spirit! Whither Wander You?' Diminution: The Shakespearean Misconception and the Tolkienian Ideal of Faërie" (p. 25)
- — "Just a Little Bit Fey: What's at the Bottom of The Lord of the Rings and A Midsummer Night's Dream?" (p. 42)
- — "'Perilously Fair': Titania, Galadriel, and the Fairy Queen of Medieval Romance " (p. 60)
- POWER
- — "'We Few, We Happy Few': War and Glory in Henry V and The Lord of the Rings" (p. 81)
- — "The Person of a Prince: Echoes of Hamlet in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings" (p. 91)
- — "How 'All That Glisters Is Not Gold' Became 'All That Is Gold Does Not Glitter': Aragorn's Debt to Shakespeare" (p. 110)
- — "'The Shadow of Succession': Shakespeare, Tolkien, and the Conception of History" (p. 128)
- — "'The Rack of This Tough World': The Influence of King Lear on Lord of the Rings" (p. 137)
- — "Shakespearean Catharsis in the Fiction of J.R.R. Tolkien" (p. 158; by Anne C. Petty)
- MAGIC
- — "Prospero's Books, Gandalf's Staff: The Ethics of Magic in Shakespeare and Tolkien" (p. 177)
- — "Merlin, Prospero, Saruman and Gandalf: Corrosive Uses of Power in Shakespeare and Tolkien" (p. 196)
- — "'Bid the Tree Unfix His Earthbound Root': Motifs from Macbeth in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings" (p. 215; by Janet Brennan Croft)
- THE OTHER
- — "Hidden in Plain View: Strategizing Unconventionality in Shakespeare's and Tolkien's Portraits of Women" (p. 229)
- — "Something Is Stirring in the East: Racial Identity, Confronting the 'Other,' and Miscegenation in Othello and The Lord of the Rings" (p. 251)
- — "Self-Cursed, Night-fearers, and Usurpers: Tolkien's Atani and Shakespeare's Men" (p. 267)
- — "Gollum and Caliban: Evolution and Design" (p. 281)
- — "Of Two Minds: Gollum and Othello" (p. 294)
- About the Contributors (p. 313)
- Index (p. 317)
Referencias
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