Tolkien and Shakespeare: Essays on Shared Themes and Language

Tolkien and Shakespeare: Essays on Shared Themes and Language studies relations between literature of William Shakespeare and the works of J.R.R. Tolkien. It was edited by Janet Brennan Croft and published in March 2007 as part of the series Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy.
==Essays==
===Faërie===
*Clashing Mythologies: The Elves of Shakespeare and Tolkien
*'How Now, Spirit! Whither Wander You?' Diminution: The Shakespearean Misconception and the Tolkienian Ideal of Faërie
*Just a Little Bit Fey: What's at the Bottom of The Lord of the Rings and A Midsummer Night's Dream?
*'Perilously Fair': Titania, Galadriel, and the Fairy Queen of Medieval Romance
===Power===
*'We Few, We Happy Few': War and Glory in Henry V and The Lord of the Rings
*The Person of a Prince: Echoes of Hamlet in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings
*How 'All That Glisters Is Not Gold' Became 'All That Is Gold Does Not Glitter': Aragorn's Debt to Shakespeare
*'The Shadow of Succession': Shakespeare, Tolkien, and the Conception of History
*'The Rack of This Tough World': The Influence of King Lear on The Lord of the Rings
*Shakespearean Catharsis in the Fiction of J.R.R. Tolkien (Anne C. Petty)
===Magic===
*Prospero's Books, Gandalf's Staff: The Ethics of Magic in Shakespeare and Tolkien
*Merlin, Prospero, Saruman and Gandalf: Corrosive Uses of Power in Shakespeare and Tolkien
*'Bid the Tree Unfix His Earthbound Root': Motifs from Macbeth in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings (by Janet Brennan Croft)
===The Other===
*Hidden in Plain View: Strategizing Unconventionality in Shakespeare's and Tolkien's Portraits of Women
*Something Is Stirring in the East: Racial Identity, Confronting the 'Other,' and Miscegenation in Othello and The Lord of the Rings
*Self-Cursed, Night-fearers, and Usurpers: Tolkien's Atani and Shakespeare's Men
*Gollum and Caliban: Evolution and Design
*Of Two Minds: Gollum and Othello
==External links==
*Official page
*Bookshop.org
*Barnes & Noble
*Review by Merlini DeTardo of the Mythopoeic Society
==See also==
*Faërie
*Tolkien and the Study of His Sources
*Tolkien's Modern Reading
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