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...

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Published in:	Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts Vol. 21; no. 1; pp. 26 - 41
Main Author:	Noone, Kristin
Format:	Article
Published:	International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts Mar2010
Subjects:	Midsummer Night's Dream, A (Play : Shakespeare) Macbeth (Play : Shakespeare) Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Fantasy fiction Supernatural in literature Magical thinking Witches in literature Free will & determinism in literature Pratchett, Terry, 1948-2015
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost