Young, 'The Mab of Folklore', 2021

Folklore, 2021

2019

The Creative Launcher

The present paper aims at to discuss the use of folktales in some notable plays of William Shakespeare. World widely he is well accepted and acknowledge a great dramatist, but this fame of Shakespeare is relied on his use of folklores of various languages and cultures. He became master in using folklores in his plays with new flavour and glamour. As we know that folklores are the foundation of modern literary forms. They are deep rooted in cultures and languages. Folklores have a tradition that they are not available in any written form but they are moulded in order to suit best in new modern literary forms. Shakespeare was the master in doing so. Folklore is a very broader term includes everything about humans and their cultures. For most of his plays, Shakespeare borrowed the material from folklores. But it’s very unfortunate that many scholars of Shakespeare concentrated themselves only on literary forms instead foundation of his plays ignored or paid no attention. So here I am m...

AC Review of Books, 2022

A review of Charlotte Artese's fascinating work on the importance folktales play within Shakespeare's literary texts.

The paper attempts a brief study of Charles and Mary Lamb(s)'s Tales from Shakespeare, as a translated work of plays of William Shakespeare. For research purpose various books, blogs and online journals are consulted.

TEXT: Journal of Writing and Writing Courses, 2016

When Shakespeare's plays are creatively reinterpreted or rewritten, 'Shakespeare' invariably remains locked in as the fixed point of reference: rewritings of Shakespeare; reinterpretations of Shakespeare, and so on. Since 1753, Shakespeare source studies have been mapping the source materials on which his plays were based, which should have enabled us to loosen this fixed point of reference and to begin to picture the much longer history of reinterpretations in which the plays participate. Yet traditional approaches to Shakespeare source studies merely lock in a new point of reference, encompassing both source text and play. This paper aims to show that the new source studies unravels the notion of an 'original' by enabling us to unlock broader fields of exchange within which Shakespeare's texts and our interpretations circulate together. Using the example of Macbeth and the language of borrowing and robbery within it, this essay illustrates the capacity for creative or writerly engagements with a Shakespearean text to tap, perhaps even unconsciously at times, into a history of words and images that goes far beyond the 400 years that we are marking in this year of Shakespeare.

1972

This work is a study of the various concepts and theories of myth and ritual as they are found in some non-literary disciplines, especially anthropology, in literary theory, and in the criticism of Shakespeare.

Cahiers Élisabéthains: A Journal of English Renaissance Studies, 1988