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Character and the supernatural in Shakespeare and Achebe / Kenneth Usongo.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Furness Shakespeare Library (Van Pelt 628) PR2989 .U86 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Usongo, Kenneth, author.
- Series:
- Routledge studies in speculative fiction
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Characters.
- Shakespeare, William.
- Achebe, Chinua--Characters.
- Achebe, Chinua.
- Supernatural in literature.
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
- Characters and characteristics.
- Physical Description:
- 151 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2021.
- Summary:
- "Through mainly a New Historicist critical approach, this book explores how Shakespeare and Achebe employ supernatural devices such as prophecies, dreams, gods/goddesses, beliefs, and divinations to create complex characters"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Contextualizing Shakespeare and Achebe. Differences between Shakespeare and Achebe
- The term supernatural. Early western embodiments of the supernatural
- Igbo embodiments of the supernatural
- Literary manifestations of the supernatural
- Shakespeare and the supernatural. King Lear
- Macbeth
- Julius Caesar
- Hamlet
- Othello
- Achebe and the supernatural
- The supernatural and character
- The supernatural as premonitory
- The supernatural and morality
- Shakespeare's and Achebe's use of the supernatural
- Impact of the supernatural on the protagonists
- The supernatural as prolepsis and moral implications.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.
- Other Format:
- ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 9780367710774
- 0367710773
- 9780367710934
- 0367710935
- OCLC:
- 1196242043
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