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  • The Medieval Hero on Screen

    Representations from Beowulf to Buffy

    Edited by Martha W. Driver, Sid Ray ...
    Few figures have captured Hollywood's and the public's imagination as completely as have medieval heroes. Cast as chivalric knight, warrior princess, "alpha male in tights," or an amalgamation, and as likely to appear in Hong Kong action flicks and spaghetti westerns as films set in the Middle Ages, the medieval hero on film serves many purposes.This collection of essays about the medieval hero on ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Stage Matters

    Props, Bodies, and Space in Shakespearean Performance

    by Jim Casey, Sarah Enloe, Robert W. Jones, Catherine Loomis, Sarah Neville, Stephen Purcell, Sid Ray, Sara B. T. Thiel, Amanda Zoch ...
    Series series Shakespeare and the Stage
    The collection, edited by Annalisa Castaldo and Rhonda Knight, features essays by scholars interested in exploring how the material culture of sixteenth and early seventeenth English theatrical culture influenced the creation and presentation of drama and how understanding this culture can enrich scholars’ current interactions with these plays as well as offer insights to actors and directors. The ... Read more

    $39.69 USD

  • Shaping Shakespeare for Performance

    The Bear Stage

    by Alan Armstrong, Sybille Bruun, Heidi Cephus, Christopher Clary, Peter Hyland, Peter Kanelos, James Keegan, Matt Kozusko, Russ McDonald, Ann Pleiss Morris, Cass Morris, Paige Martin Reynolds, Deb Streusand, Ann Thompson, Michael M. Wagoner, Kimberly Redman West, Celestine Woo, Annalisa Castaldo, Fiona Harris-Ramsby ...
    Series series The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series on Shakespeare and the Stage
    Shaping Shakespeare for Performance: The Bear Stage collects significant work from the 2013 Blackfriars Conference. The conference, sponsored by the American Shakespeare Center, brings together scholars, actors, directors, dramaturges, and students to share important new work on the staging practices used by William Shakespeare and his contemporaries. The volume’s contributors range from renowned ... Read more

    $105.99 USD

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  • The Mammoth Book of King Arthur

    by Mike Ashley ...
    Series Book 177 - Mammoth Books
    The most complete guide ever to the real Arthurian world and the legends that surround it He defeated the Saxons so decisively at the Battle of Badon that he held the Saxon invasion of Britain at bay for at least a generation. He has inspired more stories, books and films than any other historical or legendary figure.But who was the real King Arthur? Here is the most comprehensive guide to the ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • American Indian Trickster Tales

    by Richard Erdoes ...
    Of all the characters in myths and legends told around the world, it's the wily trickster who provides the real spark in the action, causing trouble wherever he goes. This figure shows up time and again in Native American folklore, where he takes many forms, from the irascible Coyote of the Southwest, to Iktomi, the amorphous spider man of the Lakota tribe. This dazzling collection of American ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Collection of Celtic Folklore Of Wales

    by NETLANCERS INC ...
    Collection of Celtic Folklore Of WalesImportant collections of Celtic folklore and one of the most important collections of Welsh folkand fairy legend, including many stories of fairy women who become wives and lovers. Many of these are from the lakes of Wales. John Rhys collected these tales from the Welsh speaking people. Their relationship to the Medieval manuscript material such as the ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • Portuguese Stories - Folktales From The Portuguese Countryside (Folklore History Series)

    by Foz Do Douro ...
    Portugal's countryside is beautiful and remote, steeped in rich folktales and deep religious superstition. This book is a fabulous window into an unseen old world. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900's and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Snowdrop and other Tales

    by Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm ...
    The Brothers Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, German academics, linguists, cultural researchers, lexicographers and authors who together specialized in collecting and publishing folklore during the 19th century, were among the best-known storytellers of folk tales, and popularized stories such as "The Goose-Girl" ("Die Gänsemagd") or SNOWDROP THE PINK BRIAR ROSE THE JEW AMONG THE THORNS ASHENPUTTEL ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • On Greek Religion

    by Robert C.T. Parker ...
    Series Book 60 - Cornell Studies in Classical Philology
    "There is something of a paradox about our access to ancient Greek religion. We know too much, and too little. The materials that bear on it far outreach an individual's capacity to assimilate: so many casual allusions in so many literary texts over more than a millennium, so many direct or indirect references in so many inscriptions from so many places in the Greek world, such an overwhelming ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Robin Hood

    by Neil Smith ...
    Series series Myths and Legends
    He robbed from the rich to give to the poor, or so the legend goes. But who was the outlaw known as Robin Hood? How did his legend develop, and how has it changed over the passing centuries? This new title in the Osprey Myths and Legends series takes a detailed look at the famous outlaw, beginning with a retelling of the early ballads that established his stories. From there, the book explores how ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Dictionary of Mysticism

    by Frank Gaynor ...
    More than 2,200 terms defined in an essential reference on religious mysticism, esoteric philosophy, occultism, and more.Dictionary of Mysticism provides concise definitions for more than 2,200 terms used in many philosophies, religions, and doctrines which relate to the influence of the superhuman and supernatural on man's everyday life. Terms relating to esoteric philosophy, occultism, religious ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Yesterday's Country Customs

    A History of Traditional English Folklore

    by Henry Buckton ...
    In England today we enjoy a rich diversity of folk traditions, many of which can trace their beginnings back hundreds of years. They stem from every phase of our antiquity and embody all the peoples who have traditionally enriched our culture. In this book we visit some of the best known examples, including mumming, cheese rolling, tree dressing, rushbearing, beating the bounds, flitch trials and ... Read more

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