Shakespeare in Discworld: Witches, Fantasy, and Desire.
In Shakespeare's plays, most notably A Midsummer Night's Dream and Macbeth, the supernatural world provides a means to discuss desire, a force both uncanny and inescapable. In the modern fantasy genre, the liminal world of the fairies and witches becomes just as essential, and the question of human...
| Publicado en: | Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts Vol. 21; no. 1; pp. 26 - 41 |
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International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts
Mar2010
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