Character and the supernatural in Shakespeare and Achebe / Kenneth Usongo.
By: Usongo, Kenneth [author.].
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BookSeries: Routledge studies in speculative fiction.Publisher: New York, NY : Routledge, 2021Description: 1 online resource (1 volume.).Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781003149224 (electronic bk); 1003149227 (electronic bk); 9781000349542; 1000349543; 9781000349603; 1000349608; 9781000349573; 1000349578.Subject(s): Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Characters | Achebe, Chinua -- Characters | Supernatural in literature | LITERARY CRITICISM / Shakespeare | LITERARY CRITICISM / AfricanDDC classification: 822.3/3 Online resources: Taylor & Francis | OCLC metadata license agreement Contextualizing Shakespeare and Achebe. Differences between Shakespeare and Achebe -- The term supernatural. Early western embodiments of the supernatural -- Igbo embodiments of the supernatural -- Literary manifestations of the supernatural -- Shakespeare and the supernatural. King Lear -- Macbeth -- Julius Caesar -- Hamlet -- Othello -- Achebe and the supernatural -- The supernatural and character -- The supernatural as premonitory -- The supernatural and morality -- Shakespeare's and Achebe's use of the supernatural -- Impact of the supernatural on the protagonists -- The supernatural as prolepsis and moral implications.
"Through mainly a New Historicist critical approach, this book explores how Shakespeare and Achebe employ supernatural devices such as prophecies, dreams, gods/goddesses, beliefs, and divinations to create complex characters"--
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