Introduction : Tolkien and Shakespeare : influences, echoes, revisions | p. 1 |
Clashing mythologies : the elves of Shakespeare and Tolkien | p. 9 |
"How now, spirit! Whither wander you?" diminution : the Shakespearean misconception and the Tolkienian ideal of faerie | p. 25 |
Just a little bit fey : what's at the bottom of The lord of the rings and A midsummer night's dream? | p. 42 |
"Perilously fair" : Titania, Galadriel, and the fairy queen of medieval romance | p. 60 |
"We few, we happy few" : war and glory in Henry V and The lord of the rings | p. 81 |
The person of a prince : echoes of Hamlet in J. R. R. Tolkien's The lord of the rings | p. 91 |
How "all that glisters is not gold" became "all that is gold does not glitter" : Aragorn's debt to Shakespeare | p. 110 |
"The shadow of succession" : Shakespeare, Tolkien, and the conception of history | p. 128 |
"The rack of this tough world" : the influence of King Lear on Lord of the rings | p. 137 |
Shakespearean catharsis in the fiction of J. R. R. Tolkien | p. 158 |
Prospero's books, Gandalf's staff : the ethics of magic in Shakespeare and Tolkien | p. 177 |
Merlin, Prospero, Saruman and Gandalf : corrosive uses of power in Shakespeare and Tolkien | p. 196 |
"Bid the tree unfix his earthbound root" : motifs from Macbeth in J. R. R. Tolkien's The lord of the rings | p. 215 |
Hidden in plain view : strategizing unconventionality in Shakespeare's and Tolkien's portraits of women | p. 229 |
Something is stirring in the East : racial identity, confronting the "other," and miscegenation in Othello and The lord of the rings | p. 251 |
Self-cursed, night-fearers, and usurpers : Tolkien's Atani and Shakespeare's men | p. 267 |
Gollum and Caliban : evolution and design | p. 281 |
Of two minds : Gollum and Othello | p. 294 |
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