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Folktales of England

Folktales of England

Briggs, Katharine M.
Tongue, Ruth L.

Paperback

Series: Folktales of the World

Mythology & FolkloreBritish History

ISBN10: 0226074943
ISBN13: 9780226074948
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: Sep 15 1968
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.45 Width: 5.19 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
If wonder tales are not abundant in England, 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 is a fine, homely feast, immediately intelligble. . . .--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

Folktales of England is by all odds the most satisfactory general collection of folktales to come out of England since the advent of modern collection and classification techniques.--Ernest W. Baughman, Journal of American Folklore

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