This volume brings together a wide range of original, scholarly essays on key figures and topics in medieval literature by leading academics. The volume examines the major authors such as Chaucer, Langland and the Gawain Poet, and covers key topics in medieval literature, including gender, class, courtly and popular culture, and religion. The volume seeks to provide a fresh and stimulating guide to medieval literature.
Published in time for the release of The Return Of The King, the last of the Lord of the Rings trilogy! Filled with captivating illustrations by award-winner Robert Ingpen, this beautifully bound guide makes a fabulous gift for all fans of the fantastic. The secrets of the ancient sorcerers, the practices of the medieval alchemists, and the rituals of modern magicians are found between the special padded covers of this beautifully produced book. Inside, readers discover how lucky talismans work and which tools to use for successful spell casting. The most remarkable wizards who walked the earth, from the evil sorceress Circe to the legendary Merlin, are all captured in a superb text by Beatrice Phillpotts, the author of Faery Paintings, Mermaids, and The Faery Companion.
This is a timely companion to the books and films of magic and sorcery that are capturing everybody's imagination. It tells the story of magic and its famous practitioners, both historical and fictional, from Merlin and Dr Dee to Gandalf and Professor Dumbledore.
A Midsummer Night's Dream is perhaps Shakespeare's most popular play, particularly as a first introduction to Shakespeare for children--filled as it is with a marvelous mixture of aristocrats, workers, and fairies. For the Oxford Shakespeare edition, Peter Holland's introduction looks atdreams and dreamers, tracing the materials out of which Shakespeare constructs his world of night and shadows.
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