About the Author

Janet Brennan Croft is liaison to the school of communication and information and librarian for disability services and copyright at Rutgers University Libraries in North Brunswick, New Jersey. She has written on the Peter Jackson films, J.K. Rowling, Terry Pratchett, Lois McMaster Bujold, and other authors, and is editor or co-editor of five collections of literary essays and edits the refereed scholarly journal Mythlore.

Reviews

"some worthwhile contributions here"--Library Journal; "recommend[ed]"--Mythlore; "this collection is well worth the time of scholars of Tolkien and Shakespeare alike. Both sides will find insights into their own author...Croft has done an admirable job of assembling a strong collection of essays that should persuade many to rethink basic assumptions about Tolkien's relationship to Shakespeare"--Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts; "of interest to children's literature scholars"--Children's Literature Association Quarterly; "I enjoyed--and found my thinking stimulated by--this book...will look forward to new work from its authors, including its editor"--Tolkien Studies; "scholars of English literature explore how the Elizabethan playwright and poet influenced the 20th-century scholar of Old English and writer of fantasy in terms of themes, motifs and word choices"--Reference & Research Book News.