Tolkien And Shakespeare

Author : Janet Brennan Croft
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786428279
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tolkien and Shakespeare written by Janet Brennan Croft and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2007-04-05 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tolkien and Shakespeare: one a prolific popular dramatist and poet of the Elizabethan era, the other a twentieth-century scholar of Old English and author of a considerably smaller body of work. Though unquestionably very different writers, the two have more in common than one might expect. 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. The depiction of Elves and the world of Faerie, and how humans interact with them, are some of the most obvious points of comparison and difference for the two writers. Both Tolkien and Shakespeare deeply explored the uses and abuses of power with princes, politics, war, and the lessons of history. Magic and prophecy were also of great concern to both authors, and the works of both are full of encounters with the Other: masks and disguises, mirrors that hide and reveal, or seeing stones that show only part of the truth.

Author : Kevin Pask
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421410745
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fairy Way of Writing written by Kevin Pask and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of popular superstitions, tales, and magic in British literature. In The Fairy Way of Writing, Kevin Pask seeks to explain the origins and popularity of enchantment in Shakespeare’s plays. Writers John Dryden and Joseph Addison originated the phrase “fairy way of writing” to define the concept of an English creative imagination founded on a synthesis of high literary culture and the popular culture of tales and superstitions. Beginning with Chaucer, Johnson, Dryden, and Milton, Pask argues that the fairy way of writing not only sets the stage for the fairy tale, the Gothic novel, and children’s literature but also informs genres beyond the English canon, including painting, twentieth-century fantasy fiction, and French fairy tales. In addition to English writers and visual artists such as Pope, Blake, and Keats, who were directly engaged with Shakespearean fantasy, Pask also examines fairy tales, letters, and paintings by the French writers Madame d'Aulnoy, Charles Perrault, Madame de Sévigné, and the Swiss-born artist Johann Heinrich Füssli (Fuseli). The Fairy Way of Writing alters the traditional sense of English literary history and of Shakespeare’s singular place in it, insisting on the importance of often-overlooked literary and visual works. It recovers a distinctive aspect of English literary culture from across the entire early modern era and beyond, one that has been studied in the context of individual periods and writers but is only now explored in relation to the history of European nationalism and the creation of the modern literary system.

Author : John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0007203586
Total Pages : 571 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fellowship of the Ring written by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2005 with total page 571 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Fellowship of the Ring' is the first part of JRR Tolkien's epic masterpiece 'The Lord of the Rings'. This 50th anniversary edition features special packaging and includes the definitive edition of the text.|PB

Author : Algernon Blackwood
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1609771389
Total Pages : 75 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Man Whom the Trees Loved written by Algernon Blackwood and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exquisitely wrought and truly imaginative conception.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hamlet, etc written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1720 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Roberto Arduini
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783905703429
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tolkien and the Classics written by Roberto Arduini and published by . This book was released on 2019-06-14 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The origins of this collection are twofold. First, the awareness of the importance of making scholars and critics realize how much J.R.R. Tolkien is a great literary classic, comparable to those already accepted as 'canonical'. Second, to offer a publication that could be made use of by students and teachers of secondary schools / universities.

Author : Martha W. Driver
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786491655
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare and the Middle Ages written by Martha W. Driver and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every generation reinvents Shakespeare for its own needs, imagining through its particular choices and emphases the Shakespeare that it values. The man himself was deeply involved in his own kind of historical reimagining. This collection of essays examines the playwright's medieval sources and inspiration, and how they shaped his works. With a foreword by Michael Almereyda (director of the Hamlet starring Ethan Hawke) and dramaturge Dakin Matthews, these thirteen essays analyze the ways in which our modern understanding of medieval life has been influenced by our appreciation of Shakespeare's plays.

Author : Philip Davis
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441129030
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare Thinking written by Philip Davis and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2009-05-17 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespearean thinking is always dynamic: thinking that happens in the living moment of its performance, in quickly passing process. This book offers a model of human mentality that can be shown through the dense immediacy of dramatic thinking, as embodied above all in Shakespeare's working method. Shakespeare Thinking discusses the positioning of Shakespeare as the paradigm of fully human mental creativity from the Romantics to the latest neurological experiments which show that Shakespeare can reveal new understandings of the hard-wiring of the human brain, and the sheer sudden electricity of its synaptic development.

Author : Christoph Höbel
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3640531639
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book J.R.R. Tolkien's Gandalf and Saruman in the tradition of Shakespeare's Prospero written by Christoph Höbel and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2010-02-09 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2,7, University of Trier (Fachbereich II Anglistik), course: The Tempest and Its Followers, language: English, abstract: The figure of the wizard can be considered as one of the most interesting characters in modern fantasy literature. Normally, wizards are seen as old, wise men, with long beards, robes and staffs who have great knowledge about the world and its history due to long studies and books. However, there are a few ancestors of the wizard as he is seen today: in Arthurian legends you can find Merlin and in Shakespeare’s plays Prospero is the great wizard. In creating Prospero Shakespeare conjured an image of the wizard, traces of which can still be found in modern literary figures. As Prospero can be seen as “providing one of the basic templates for the figure of the wizard” it is interesting to the similarities between wizards like him and wizards in modern fiction. In the novel The Lord of the Rings J.R.R. Tolkien describes two wizards who settled the image of the modern wizard in the reader’s mind: Gandalf and Saruman. As “Gandalf became a cult figure in the late 1960s” his opponent Saruman cannot reach his popularity. However, the two wizards show the two sides of magic between which a wizard can choose: good versus evil. In the novel the wizard plays “a crucial, super-heroic role” and thus the wizard is manifested as a basic of fantasy literature. Taking into account that Prospero’s character has good and bad attitudes in Shakespeare’s The Tempest it is interesting to examine the relationship between him and his descendants Gandalf and Saruman as the embodiments of good and evil. Three main aspects will be analysed: the sources of the three wizards’ magic, where their power is situated; how to evaluate the use of magic, whether it is good or bad; and in which way the magic is manifested in the outer world. Some abstractions should be considered in analysing Prospero, Gandalf and Saruman: Gandalf and Saruman are known by many names; however, I use Gandalf and Saruman as the most famous and most used names, too. Moreover, the three wizards represent one prototype of wizard: the one who is educated and who uses magical powers. However, in today’s fiction there still exist other kinds of wizards who draw their power from other sources, for example, the Wizard of Oz who “is a charlatan who has arrived in the magical country of Oz by balloon”.

Author : The Puzzle Society
Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1449409954
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pocket Posh J.R.R. Tolkien written by The Puzzle Society and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2012-05-29 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pocket Posh J.R.R. Tolkien is an engaging and stylish collection of brain-teasing puzzles and quizzes for fans of master storytelling. Pocket Posh J.R.R. Tolkien includes a wide variety of puzzles, including Crosswords, Word Search, Codewords, Wordwheel, and Add a Letter. All are themed to reveal or create words related to J.R.R. Tolkien and his books. Shaded letters in a crossword grid might spell out a character's name, a word search might include a list of characters or places found in a specific book, a codeword can be decoded to spell out a quote or phrase from a book.