Shakespeare and the Folktale
Subtitle: An Anthology of Stories
By: EDITED BY Charlotte Artese
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2019-10-22
Place of publication: Princeton, New Jersey, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9780691190860
Table of contents: title: 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; title: Lord for a day. The frolicksome duke : or the tinker's good fortune / anonymous ballad ; Asleep and awake / from The thousand and one nights; title: The wicked queen reformed by whipping by a cobbler. The queen and the tripe-seller / Rachel Henriette Busk; title: 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; title: 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; title: 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; title: 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; title: Three caskets. The maid in the century underground / Patrick Kennedy; title: 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; title: 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; title: 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; title: 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; title: The maiden who seeks her brothers. The twelve wild ducks / Peter Christian Asbjørnson and Jørgen Moe; title: 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