This remarkable book explores the history of fairies in literature and tradtion.

This volume is a comprehensive collection of critical essays on The Taming of the Shrew, and includes extensive discussions of the play's various printed versions and its theatrical productions. Aspinall has included only those essays that offer the most influential and controversial arguments surrounding the play. The issues discussed include gender, authority, female autonomy and unruliness, courtship and marriage, language and speech, and performance and theatricality.

The fairy tradition in the British Isles is a fantastically rich and varied one. This book celebrates this diversity with essays, poems and a wonderful selection of reported sightings and country tales, ranging from medieval chronicles to stories handed down almost within living memory.

Scholars of fairy-tale studies will enjoy Bacchilega's significant new study of contemporary adaptations.

"The present volume contains thirty-five fairy tales by nineteen writers, presented chronologically by author"--Introduction.

This book examines the fairy in the work of many Victorian painters, novelists and poets.

A "Who's Who" of fairyland, with entries by fairy name and additional legends, songs, and anecdotes within each entry.