This critical edition reprints the Bevington text of The Tempest along with essays representing major critical and cultural controversies surrounding the work. The second edition includes four new selections, revised headnotes, visual representations of Caliban, and an appendix on writing about critical controversies.
Preface
PART I: SHAKESPEARE AND THE TEMPEST
The Life and Work of William Shakespeare
The Text of The Tempest
PART II: A CASE STUDY IN CRITICAL CONTROVERSY
Why Study Critical Controversies about The Tempest??
Literary Study, Politics and Shakespeare: A Debate
Literary Politics; G.Will
The Best Way to Kill our Literary Heritage is to Turn it into Decorous Celebration of the New World Order; S.Greenblatt
Sources and Contexts
From Of the Cannibals; M.de Montaigne
From True Repertory of the Wrack; W.Strachey
From A Discovery of the Barmudas; S.Jourdain
Reasons for Colonization; R.Hakluyt
From Letter to Phillip, Great Prince of Spain; B.De Las Casas
The Monster Caliban; D.Wilson
A Portfolio of Images of Caliban
The Tempest in the Wilderness; R.Takaki
Shakespeare and the Power of Order
From The Great Chain of Being; E.M.W.Tilyard
The Shakespeare: The Final Plays; F.Kermode
The Blue-Eyed Witch; L.Marcus
The Post-Colonial Challenge
'This Thing of Darkness I Acknowledge Mine': The Tempest and the Discourse of Colonialism; P.Brown
Nymphs and Reapers Heavily Vanish: The Discursive Contexts of 'The Tempest'; F.Barker & P.Hulme
From A Tempest; A.Cesaire
Responding to the Challenge
Shakespeare's 'Tempest' and the Discourse of Colonialism; D.Willis
'The Duke of Milan/ And His Brave Son': Old Histories and New in The Tempest; D.S.Kastan
Discourse and the Individual: The Case of Colonialism in The Tempest; M.A.Skura
The Feminist Challenge
From Gender, Race, Renaissance Drama; A.Loomba
'Miranda, Where's Your Sister?': Reading Shakespeare's The Tempest; A.Thompson
Writing About Critical Controversy in The Tempest
Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Index
GERALD GRAFF lectures at the University of Illinois, Chicago, USA.
JAMES PHELAN lectures at The Ohio State University, USA.