Folktales of England (Folktales of the World) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0226074943 ISBN 13: 9780226074948

Publisher: University Of Chicago Press, 1968

Synopsis

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

About this edition

• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Publication date: 1968
• ISBN 10: 0226074943
• ISBN 13: 9780226074948
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208
• Editor: Briggs Katharine M.