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Shakespeare and the folktale : an anthology of stories /

"An international collection of the traditional tales that inspired some of Shakespeare's greatest plays. Shakespeare knew a good story when he heard one, and he wasn't afraid to borrow from what he heard or read, especially traditional folktales. The Merchant of Venice, for example,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Artese, Charlotte, 1973- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, [2019]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The taming of the shrew. Taming of the shrew. The most obedient wife / Svend Grundtvig ; How a bad daughter was made a good wife / Angus MacLellan
  • Lord for a day. The frolicksome duke : or the tinker's good fortune / anonymous ballad ; Asleep and awake / from The thousand and one nights
  • The wicked queen reformed by whipping by a cobbler. The queen and the tripe-seller / Rachel Henriette Busk
  • The comedy of errors. The twins or blood-brothers. The enchanted doe / Giambattista Basile ; The story of the two golden brothers / D.L.R. and E.O. Lorimer ; Black Jack and White Jack / Roger D. Abrahams
  • Titus Andronicus. The revenge of the castrated man. Revenge / Mas'udi ; The scene of sorrows / Gerald of Wales ; The lady and the blackamoor / anonymous ballad
  • The maiden without hands. The maiden without hands / Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm ; The cruel stepmother / Peter Buchan ; The envious sisters / W. Henry Jones and Lewis L. Kropf ; Olive / Italo Calvino ; The armless maiden / Aleksandr Afanas'ev
  • The merchant of Venice. A pound of flesh. The creditor / Johannes de Alta Silva ; White onion / Yolando Pino-Saavedra ; The cruel creditor / Dov Noy ; Fareed and the kázi
  • Three caskets. The maid in the century underground / Patrick Kennedy
  • All's well that ends well. The man who deserted his wife. Ortodosio, Isabella, Argentina / Giovanni Francesco Straparola ; Catherine the Wise / Italo Calvino ; The sultan's camp follower / Inea Bushnaq ; The talisman of chastity / Saṅgēndi Mahāliṅgam Naṭeṣa Ṣāstrī
  • King Lear. Love like salt. Cap o' rushes / Joseph Jacobs ; The turkey-girl / Jean-François Bladé ; Marie, the king's daughter / Jean-Baptiste Frédéric Ortoli ; The gift of God / Naki Tezel ; The goose girl at the spring / Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
  • Cymbeline. The wager on the wife's chastity. The wager on the wife's chastity / Yolando Pino-Saavedra ; The innkeeper of Moscow / Kurt Ranke ; Wormwood / Italo Calvino ; The Lady O'Conor / J.M. Synge
  • Snow White. Blanca Rosa and the forty thieves / Yolando Pino-Saavedra ; The glass coffin / Violet Paget ; Lasari Gheug, the King of Ireland's daughter / Alan Bruford
  • The maiden who seeks her brothers. The twelve wild ducks / Peter Christian Asbjørnson and Jørgen Moe
  • The tempest. The magic flight. Nix nought nothing / Joseph Jacobs ; Green sleeves / Peter Buchan ; The two kings' children / Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm ; Jack beats the devil / Zora Neale Hurston ; The bee and the orange tree / Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy.