Eliade,

The Sacred and the Profane , chapter 2;

Myth and Reality .

Applications of the theory of myth to literature: Jessie L. Weston,

From Ritual to Romance (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1920); E. M. Butler,

The Myth of the Magus (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; New York: Macmillan, 1948); C. L. Barber,

Shakespeare’s Festive Comedy (Princeton, NJ:

Weisinger,

Tragedy and the Paradox of the Fortunate Fall (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul; East Lansing: Michigan State College Press, 1953); Francis Fergusson,

The Idea of a Theater (Princeton, NJ:

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