Folktales of England
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Folktales of England
(Folktales of the world)
University of Chicago Press, 1968, c1965
Paperback ed.
- pbk.
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Note
Includes unacc. melodies
Bibliography: p. [153]-158
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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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