Literature
Archetypes and Motifs in Folklore and Literature: A Handbook
Gale Contextual Encyclopedia of World Literature
Shakespeare for Students: Critical Interpretations of Shakespeares Plays and Poetry
Understanding Lord of the Flies: A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents
Understanding Othello: A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents
Understanding Romeo and Juliet: A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents
Voices of Shakespeare’s England: ContemporaryAccounts of Elizabethan Daily Life
Archetypes and Motifs in Folklore and Literature: A Handbook
Provides a detailed analysis of the most common archetypes or motifs found in the folklore of selected communities around the world. Includes examination of such motifs as Bewitching, Chance and Fate, Choice of Roads, Death or Departure of the Gods, the Double, Ghosts and Other Revenants, the Hero Cycle, Journey to the Otherworld, Magic Invulnerability, Soothsayer, Transformation, Tricksters, and more.
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Gale Contextual Encyclopedia of World Literature
This four-volume set covers world authors from many periods and genres, building a broad understanding of the various contexts — from the biographical to the literary to the historical — in which literature can be viewed. The Gale Contextual Encyclopedia of World Literature allows you to analyze an author’s work as a reflection of the heritage, traditions and experiences of the author’s personal life and the beliefs, events, and lifestyles of the world at the time,
Shakespeare for Students: Critical Interpretations of Shakespeare’s Plays and Poetry
Each detailed, illustrated entry in this resource provides:
- An introduction that provides an overview of the play or poem
- A plot summary
- An annotated character list
- A discussion of the play’s principal themes
- Understandable essays on the plays construction (setting, dialogue, imagery)
- Historical and cultural context sections that illuminate the play’s role in inter-curricular studies
- Excerpted critical commentary on various facets of the play
- Extensive theme index
- A chronology of Shakespeare’s life, work, and times
The interdisciplinary approach of this casebook will help you situate the lessons of Lord of the Flies in the context of Education, War and Postwar, the Adventure Story, Religion, and Biology and Evolution. The six topic sections integrate original illustrations and photos, literary excerpts, and primary documents and historic writings that help you contextualize the work.
Explores the many contexts of Shakespeare’s Othello and the controversial issues from historical and modern perspectives.
A rich collection of commentary and primary documents that will enhance the reader’s understanding of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.
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Voices of Shakespeare’s England: Contemporary Accounts of Elizbethan Daily Life
Voices of Shakespeare’s England offers you over 50 primary documents that illuminate the character, personalities, and events of the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods.
Men and women, kings and commoners, heroes and villains and fools … William Shakespeare was a master of authentic voices across a wide range of historical eras. But what about the voices of the people of his own time? What do Shakespeare’s fellow citizens of Elizabethan England have to tell us about life in that extraordinary era?
Voices of Shakespeare’s England: Contemporary Accounts of Elizabethan Daily Life helps you explore the era that produced, among other things, the world’s greatest playwright. It brings together excerpts from over 50 primary documents written in William Shakespeare’s lifetime, including letters, literature, speeches and polemics, official reports, and descriptive narratives.
Voices of Shakespeare’s England includes the works of Shakespeare himself, as well as other poets and playwrights, but it also expands beyond the literary world to cover politics, religion, economics, social change, and the royal court. By allowing Shakespeare’s contemporaries to speak in their own voices, it offers an illuminating look at the breadth of Elizabethan society, including major historic events in England as well as Scotland, Ireland, the European continent, and even the new world of America.