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Contents Introduction Tolkien and Shakespeare: Influences, Echoes, Revisions 1 Janet Brennan Croft Fa¿rie Clashing Mythologies: The Elves of Shakespeare and Tolkien 9 Allegra Johnston "How Now, Spirit! Wither Wander You?" Diminution: The Shakespearean Misconception and the Tolkienian Ideal of Fa¿rie 00 Jessica Burke Just a Little Bit Fey: What's at the Bottom of The Lord of the Rings and A Midsummer Night's Dream? 00 Rebecca-Anne C. Do Rozario "Perilously Fair": Titania, Galadriel, and the Fairy Queen of Medieval Romance 00 Romuald I. Lakowski Power "We Few, We Happy Few": War and Glory in Henry V and The Lord of the Rings 000 Daniel Timmons The Person of a Prince: Echoes of Hamlet in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings 000 Kayla McKinney Wiggins How "All That Glisters Is Not Gold" Became "All That Is Gold Does Not Glitter": Aragorn's Debt to Shakespeare 000 Judith J. Kollmann "The Shadow of Succession": Shakespeare, Tolkien, and the Conception of History 000 Annalisa Castaldo "The Rack of This Tough World": The Influence of King Lear on Lord of the Rings 000 Leigh Smith Shakespearean Catharsis in the Fiction of J.R.R. Tolkien 000 Anne C. Petty Magic Prospero's Books, Gandalf's Staff: The Ethics of Magic in Shakespeare and Tolkien 000 Nicholas Ozment Merlin, Prospero, Saruman and Gandalf: Corrosive Uses of Power in Shakespeare and Tolkien 000 Frank P. Riga "Bid the Tree Unfix His Earthbound Root": Motifs from Macbeth in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings 000 Janet Brennan Croft The Other Hidden in Plain View: Strategizing Unconventionality in Shakespeare's and Tolkien's Portraits of Women 000 Maureen Thum Something Is Stirring in the East: Racial Identity, Confronting the "Other," and Miscegenation in Othello and The Lord of the Rings 000 Robert Gehl Self-Cursed, Night-fearers, and Usurpers: Tolkien's Atani and Shakespeare's Men 000 Anna F¿hraeus Gollum and Caliban: Evolution and Design 000 Lisa Hopkins Of Two Minds: Gollum and Othello 000 Charles Keim About the Contributors 000 Index 000_
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel), 1892-1973 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel), 1892-1973 -- Knowledge -- Literature.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Influence.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Knowledge -- Literature.
Mythology in literature.
Myth in literature.