Shakespeare's Christmas and Other Stories (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. Adventure TalesBy Arthur Quiller-Couch
Length8h 22m
About this audiobook
Shakespeare's Christmas and Other Stories gathers Arthur Quiller-Couch's short fiction in a mode at once festive, antiquarian, and gently ironic. The title story imagines the young Shakespeare within a richly textured social world, using Christmas custom, theatrical instinct, and historical suggestion to illuminate the making of poetic genius. Across the collection, Quiller-Couch favors poised narration, humane comedy, and a romance-inflected realism shaped by Victorian and Edwardian storytelling traditions. Arthur Quiller-Couch, widely known as "Q," was a Cornish writer, critic, anthologist, and later King Edward VII Professor of English Literature at Cambridge. His lifelong devotion to English letters, his editorial command of literary tradition, and his attachment to local memory and oral tale all inform these stories. He writes as a scholar-storyteller: alert to historical atmosphere, yet more interested in character, cadence, and moral resonance than in pedantic reconstruction. This volume is warmly recommended to readers who enjoy historically minded fiction, literary homage, and short stories composed with elegance and tact. Admirers of Shakespearean afterlives, English seasonal writing, and the refined narrative art of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries will find it especially rewarding.
This enriched edition has been carefully crafted to add value to your reading experience.
- A comprehensive Introduction outlines these selected works' unifying features, themes, or stylistic evolutions.
- A Historical Context section situates the works in their broader era—social currents, cultural trends, and key events that underpin their creation.
- A concise Synopsis (Selection) offers an accessible overview of the included texts, helping readers navigate plotlines and main ideas without revealing critical twists.
- A unified Analysis examines recurring motifs and stylistic hallmarks across the collection, tying the stories together while spotlighting the different work's strengths.
- Reflection questions inspire deeper contemplation of the author's overarching message, inviting readers to draw connections among different texts and relate them to modern contexts.
- Lastly, our hand‐picked Memorable Quotes distill pivotal lines and turning points, serving as touchstones for the collection's central themes.
Audiobook details
Rating★★★ 3.4 (16)
Includes Goodreads
GenreGeneral Fiction, Historical Fiction
Length8 hrs 22 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 20, 2020
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
2Introduction
3Historical Context
4Synopsis (Selection)
5Shakespeare's Christmas and Other Stories
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6Shakespeare's Christmas
7Ye Sexes, Give Ear!
8Captain Wyvern's Adventures
9Frenchman's Creek
10The Man Behind the Curtain
11Rain of Dollars
12The Lamp and the Guitar
13Analysis
14Reflection
15Memorable Quotes
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