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Shakespeare's Folktale Sources

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New Brunswick : University of Delaware Press, (c)2015.Description: 1 online resource (169 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781644530443
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • PR2952 .S535 2015
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
Contents:
Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: "Like the old tale" -- Chapter 1: "Tell thou the tale" -- Chapter 2: "They will not intercept my tale" -- Chapter 3: "Have I encompassed you?" -- Chapter 4: "You shall not know" -- Chapter 5: "From point to point this story know" -- Chapter 6: "Rely upon it till my tale be heard" -- Chapter 7: "Take pieces for the figure's sake" -- Bibliography -- About the Author
Subject: Shakespeare's Folktale Sources argues that seven plays--The Taming of the Shrew, Titus Andronicus, The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Merchant of Venice, All's Well that Ends Well, Measure for Measure, and Cymbeline--derive one or more of their plots directly from folktales. In most cases, scholars have accepted one literary version of the folktale as a source.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: "Like the old tale" -- Chapter 1: "Tell thou the tale" -- Chapter 2: "They will not intercept my tale" -- Chapter 3: "Have I encompassed you?" -- Chapter 4: "You shall not know" -- Chapter 5: "From point to point this story know" -- Chapter 6: "Rely upon it till my tale be heard" -- Chapter 7: "Take pieces for the figure's sake" -- Bibliography -- About the Author

Shakespeare's Folktale Sources argues that seven plays--The Taming of the Shrew, Titus Andronicus, The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Merchant of Venice, All's Well that Ends Well, Measure for Measure, and Cymbeline--derive one or more of their plots directly from folktales. In most cases, scholars have accepted one literary version of the folktale as a source.

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