Tolkien and Shakespeare: Essays on Shared Themes and Language

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Janet Brennan Croft, Donald E. Palumbo, C.W. Sullivan III
McFarland, 5 квіт. 2007 р. - 336 стор.

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.

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Introduction
1
The Elves of Shakespeare and Tolkien
9
Whats at the Bottom of The Lord of the Rings
42
Titania Galadriel and the Fairy Queen
60
POWER
67
War and Glory in Henry Vand
81
Echoes of Hamlet in J R R Tolkiens
91
How All That Glisters Is Not Gold Became All That Is Gold
110
The Ethics of Magic
177
Corrosive Uses
196
Motifs from
215
Strategizing Unconventionality
229
Racial Identity Confronting
251
Tolkiens Atani
267
Evolution and Design
281
Gollum and Othello
294

Shakespeare Tolkien
128
The Influence of King Lear
137
Shakespearean Catharsis in the Fiction of J R R Tolkien
158
About the Contributors
313
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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.

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