Tolkien and Shakespeare

Informationen zum Autor Janet Brennan Croft is liaison to the school of communication and information and librarian for disability services and copyright at Rutgers University Libraries in North Brunswick, New Jersey. She has written on the Peter Jackson films, J.K. Rowling, Terry Pratchett, Lois McMaster Bujold, and other authors, and is editor or co-editor of five collections of literary essays and edits the refereed scholarly journal Mythlore. Donald E. Palumbo is a professor of English at East Carolina University. He lives in Greenville, North Carolina. C.W. Sullivan III is Distinguished Professor of arts and sciences at East Carolina University and a full member of the Welsh Academy. He is the author of numerous books and the on-line journal Celtic Cultural Studies. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung Focus on the broad themes and motifs! which concerned both Tolkien and Shakespeare. This collection of essays seeks 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 dialogue with Shakespeare's works. Inhaltsverzeichnis Table of ContentsIntroduction: Tolkien and Shakespeare: Influences, Echoes, Revisions FAËRIEClashing Mythologies: The Elves of Shakespeare and Tolkien "How Now, Spirit! Whither Wander You?" Diminution: The Shakespearean Misconception and the Tolkienian Ideal of Faërie Just a Little Bit Fey: What's at the Bottom of The Lord of the Rings and A Midsummer Night's Dream? "Perilously Fair": Titania, Galadriel, and the Fairy Queen of Medieval Romance POWER"We Few, We Happy Few": War and Glory in Henry V and The Lord of the Rings The Person of a Prince: Echoes of Hamlet in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings How "All That Glisters Is Not Gold" Became "All That Is Gold Does Not Glitter": Aragorn's Debt to Shakespeare "The Shadow of Succession": Shakespeare, Tolkien, and the Conception of History "The Rack of This Tough World": The Influence of King Lear on Lord of the Rings Shakespearean Catharsis in the Fiction of J.R.R. Tolkien MAGICProspero's Books, Gandalf's Staff: The Ethics of Magic in Shakespeare and Tolkien Merlin, Prospero, Saruman and Gandalf: Corrosive Uses of Power in Shakespeare and Tolkien "Bid the Tree Unfix His Earthbound Root": Motifs from Macbeth in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings THE OTHERHidden in Plain View: Strategizing Unconventionality in Shakespeare's and Tolkien's Portraits of Women Something Is Stirring in the East: Racial Identity, Confronting the "Other," and Miscegenation in Othello and The Lord of the Rings Self-Cursed, Night-fearers, and Usurpers: Tolkien's ...

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Janet Brennan Croft is liaison to the school of communication and information and librarian for disability services and copyright at Rutgers University Libraries in North Brunswick, New Jersey. She has written on the Peter Jackson films, J.K. Rowling, Terry Pratchett, Lois McMaster Bujold, and other authors, and is editor or co-editor of five collections of literary essays and edits the refereed scholarly journal Mythlore.Donald E. Palumbo is a professor of English at East Carolina University. He lives in Greenville, North Carolina.C.W. Sullivan III is Distinguished Professor of arts and sciences at East Carolina University and a full member of the Welsh Academy. He is the author of numerous books and the on-line journal Celtic Cultural Studies.

Klappentext
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.

Zusammenfassung
Focus on the broad themes and motifs, which concerned both Tolkien and Shakespeare. This collection of essays seeks 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 dialogue with Shakespeare's works.

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Table of Contents

Introduction: Tolkien and Shakespeare: Influences, Echoes, Revisions

FAËRIE
Clashing Mythologies: The Elves of Shakespeare and Tolkien
"How Now, Spirit! Whither Wander You?" Diminution: The Shakespearean Misconception and the Tolkienian Ideal of Faërie
Just a Little Bit Fey: What's at the Bottom of The Lord of the Rings and A Midsummer Night's Dream?
"Perilously Fair": Titania, Galadriel, and the Fairy Queen of Medieval Romance

POWER
"We Few, We Happy Few": War and Glory in Henry V and The Lord of the Rings
The Person of a Prince: Echoes of Hamlet in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings
How "All That Glisters Is Not Gold" Became "All That Is Gold Does Not Glitter": Aragorn's Debt to Shakespeare
"The Shadow of Succession": Shakespeare, Tolkien, and the Conception of History
"The Rack of This Tough World": The Influence of King Lear on Lord of the Rings
Shakespearean Catharsis in the Fiction of J.R.R. Tolkien

MAGIC
Prospero's Books, Gandalf's Staff: The Ethics of Magic in Shakespeare and Tolkien
Merlin, Prospero, Saruman and Gandalf: Corrosive Uses of Power in Shakespeare and Tolkien
"Bid the Tree Unfix His Earthbound Root": Motifs from Macbeth in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings

THE OTHER
Hidden in Plain View: Strategizing Unconventionality in Shakespeare's and Tolkien's Portraits of Women
Something Is Stirring in the East: Racial Identity, Confronting the "Other," and Miscegenation in Othello and The Lord of the Rings
Self-Cursed, Night-fearers, and Usurpers: Tolkien's Atani and Shakespeare's Men
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