A study of Shakespeare's use of fairy-tale motifs in "Midsummer Night's Dream" and other plays. Discusses Shakespeare's debt to earlier use of mythology in English literature, notably the Norman-French and Anglo-Norman retelling of Celtic fairy tales in the Arthurian legend and the fairy tales surviving in Irish folklore.
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THIS TITLE IS CITED AND RECOMMENDED BY: Books for College Libraries; Cambridge Bibliography of English, A Shakespeare Bibliography - Ebisch; Bibliography of Comparative Literature - Baldensperger.
