Designed for "teaching the conflicts," this critical edition of Shakespeare's "The Tempest" reprints the authoritative Bevington text of the play along with 21 selections representing major critical and cultural controversies surrounding the work. The distinctive editorial material helps readers grapple not only with the play's critical issues but also with cultural debates about literature itself.
The second edition includes four new readings, revised headnotes that more helpfully contextualize the critical essays, a portfolio of visual representations of Caliban, and an appendix on writing about critical controversies and "The Tempest."
Designed for "teaching the conflicts," this critical edition of Shakespeare's "The Tempest" reprints the authoritative Bevington text of the play along with 21 selections representing major critical and cultural controversies surrounding the work. The distinctive editorial material helps readers grapple not only with the play's critical issues but also with cultural debates about literature itself.
The second edition includes four new readings, revised headnotes that more helpfully contextualize the critical essays, a portfolio of visual representations of Caliban, and an appendix on writing about critical controversies and "The Tempest."
Preface
PART ONE: SHAKESPEARE AND THE TEMPEST
The Life and Work of William Shakespeare
The Text of The Tempest
PART TWO: A CASE STUDY IN CRITICAL CONTROVERSY
Why Study Critical Controversies about The Tempest?
Literary Study, Politics, and Shakespeare: A Debate
George Will, "Literary Politics"
Stephen Greenblatt, "The Best Way to Kill Our Literary Inheritance
Is to Turn It into a Decorous Celebration of the New World
Order"
Sources and Contexts
Michel De Montaigne, from "Of the Cannibals"
William Strachey, from "True Repertory of the Wrack"
Sylvester Jourdain, from "A Discovery of the Barmudas"
Richard Hakluyt," Reasons for Colonization"
Bartolomé De Las Casas, from "Letter to Phillip, Great Prince of
Spain"
New Daniel Wilson, "The Monster Caliban"
New A Portfolio of Images of Caliban
New E. M.W. Tilyard, From The Great Chain of Being
Ronald Takaki, The "Tempest" in the Wilderness
Shakespeare and the Power of Order
Frank Kermode, from Shakespeare: The Final Plays
Reuben A. Brower," The Mirror of Analogy: The Tempest"
New Leah Marcus, "The Blue-Eyed Witch"
The Postcolonial Challenge
Paul Brown, " ‘This Thing of Darkness I Acknowledge Mine’: The
Tempest and the Discourse of Colonialism"
Francis Barker and Peter Hulme, "Nymphs and Reapers Heavily Vanish:
The Discursive Contexts of The Tempest"
New Aimé Césaire, Scenes from A Tempest
Responding to the Challenge
Deborah Willis, "Shakespeare’s Tempest and the Discourse of
Colonialism"
David Scott Kastian, " ‘The Duke of Milan /And His Brave Son’: Old
Histories and New in The Tempest"
Meredith Anne Skura, from "Discourse and the Individual: The Case
of Colonialism in The Tempest"
The Feminist Challenge
Ania Loomba, from Gender, Race, Renaissance Drama
Ann Thompson, " ‘Miranda, Where’s Your Sister?’: Reading
Shakespeare’s
The Tempest"
New Writing about Critical Controversy in The Tempest
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