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Character and the supernatural in Shakespeare and Achebe /

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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Usongo, Kenneth (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, [2021]
Series:Routledge studies in speculative fiction.
Subjects:
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 > Characters.
Achebe, Chinua > Characters.
Supernatural in literature.
Table of Contents:
  • 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.