Description: Table of Contents Introduction: Tolkien and Shakespeare: Influences, Echoes, Revisions FARIE Clashing Mythologies: The Elves of Shakespeare and Tolkien "How Now, Spirit! Whither Wander You?" Diminution: The Shakespearean Misconception and the Tolkienian Ideal of Farie 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 Lord of the Rings Shakespearean Catharsis in the Fiction of J.R.R. Tolkien 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 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 About the Contributors Index

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