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Author: Katharine Mary Briggs
Publisher: Pantheon
Published: 1979
Total Pages: 176
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Who's Who of fairyland, with entries by fairy name and additional legends, songs, and anecdotes within each entry.
Author: Katharine Mary Briggs
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Published: 2003
Total Pages: 481
ISBN-13: 9780415291576
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume is a comprehensive collection of critical essays on The Taming of the Shrew, and includes extensive discussions of the play's various printed versions and its theatrical productions. Aspinall has included only those essays that offer the most influential and controversial arguments surrounding the play. The issues discussed include gender, authority, female autonomy and unruliness, courtship and marriage, language and speech, and performance and theatricality.
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Publisher: Presbyterian Publishing Corp
Published: 2004-01-14
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13: 0203217896
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1970 Katharine Briggs published in four volumes the vast and authoritative Dictionary of British Folktales and Legends to wide acclaim. This sampler comprises the very best of those tales and legends. Gathered within, readers will find an extravagance of beautiful princesses and stout stable boys, sour-faced witches and kings with hearts of gold. Each tale is a masterpiece of storytelling, from the hilarious 'Three Sillies' to the delightfully macabre 'Sammle's Ghost'.
Author: Katharine Mary Briggs
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Published: 1997
Total Pages: 232
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe fairy tradition in the British Isles is a fantastically rich and varied one. This book celebrates this diversity with essays, poems and a wonderful selection of reported sightings and country tales, ranging from medieval chronicles to stories handed down almost within living memory.
Author: Katharine Mary Briggs
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780415286015
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis remarkable book explores the history of fairies in literature and tradtion.
Author: Katharine M. Briggs
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2016-05-19
Total Pages: 209
ISBN-13: 022637582X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“The most satisfactory general collection of folktales to come out of England since the advent of modern collection and classification techniques.”—Journal of American Folklore Tales of unnatural beings, curses, and ghosts, tall tales, shaggy dog stories—this collection from a renowned British folklorist offers a wide historical range, as well as commentaries. If wonder tales are not as abundant in England as elsewhere, other kinds of folktales thrive: local traditions, historical legends, humorous anecdotes. Many of the favorite tales which English-speaking peoples carry with them from childhood come from a long tradition—stories as familiar to Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Spenser, and their many contemporaries as they are to us. This volume is a “fine, homely feast” for anyone interested in the folklore of the world (Times Educational Supplement). “Should be of special concern to Americans since many of the tales are parallel to or the source of our own folk stories.”—Choice “This is entertainment, to be sure, but is also part of man’s attempts to comprehend his world.”—Quartet
Author: Katharine Mary Briggs
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Published: 1980
Total Pages: 315
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Katharine Mary Briggs
Publisher: Pantheon
Published: 1978
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780394737409
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA book of traditional fairy lore. Internationally acclaimed as one of Britain's most respected folklore scholars, Katharine Briggs (1898-1980) was also one of the most popular authors in the field. These selected works provide some of her landmark writings, spanning the whole of her publishing career, from 1959 to 1980.
Author: H. R. Ellis Davidson
Publisher: Lutterworth Press
Published: 2024-01-25
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 0718897501
DOWNLOAD EBOOKKatharine Briggs made an indelible mark on the world of folklore with her compilation of the Dictionary of British Folktales in the English Languages, while her subsequent Dictionary of Fairies confirmed her already distinguished place among British Folklorists. Briggs's initial academic interest while at Oxford University was in seventeenth-century literature and the Civil War. Upon leaving Oxford she pursued amateur dramatics and worked for the Guide Movement, and during the Second World War she served in the Women's Auxiliary Air Force. It was here, perhaps, that her personality fully matured; among other activities she delighted her fellows with her remarkable gift for story-telling. After the war, her career as a folklorist began to blossom. As if to make up for lost time, she spent the last twenty years of her life writing and lecturing almost continually. As well as her books on folklore, she gained renown for her children's books Kate Crackernuts and Hobberdy Dick. She was responsible for revitalising the Folklore Society and as its President, she laid the foundations of the Society as it is today. Hilda Davidson's biography brings to life a remarkable woman whose combination of academic excellence and natural gift for narrative found her friends all over the world.
Author: Katharine Briggs
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Published: 1979
Total Pages: 158
ISBN-13: 9780394508061
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