Revisiting The Tempest [electronic resource] : The Capacity to Signify /
Bigliazzi, Silvia.editor.
Calvi, Lisanna.editor.
Revisiting The Tempest offers a lively reconsideration of how The Tempest encourages interpretation and creative appropriation. It includes a wide range of essays on theoretical and practical criticism focusing on the play's original dramatic context, on its signifying processes and its present-time screen remediation.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Notes on the Contributors; Introduction; Prologue: Meaning as Allegory; 1 The Tempest as Theatrical Magic; Part I: Meaning and Genre; 2 The Tempest and Italian Improvised Theatre; 3 Pastoral Tragicomedy and The Tempest; 4 The Jonsonian Tempest; Part II: Meaning and Time-Space; 5 The Labyrinth and the Oracle; 6 ""Dost thou hear?"" On the Rhetoric of Narrative in The Tempest; Part III: Meaning and Spectacle; 7 A Tempestuous Noise: on the Acoustics and Vocalics of Storms; 8 ""Suppos'd to be rais'd by Magick"", or The Tempest 'made fit'
9 ""Lost in Visual Pleasure"": Charles Kean's Production of The TempestPart IV: Meaning and Magical Realism on Screen; 10 Magical Realism: Raising Storms and Other Quaint Devices; 11 ""This is a most majestic vision"": Performing Prospero's Masque on Screen; 12 Shakespeare's Hypertextual Performances: Remediating The Tempest in Prospero's Books; Epilogue: Meaning as Allegory; 13 'Abstraction and Allegory': Making The Tempest Mean; Afterword; Is there a Tempest Problem?; Index
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
Revisiting The Tempest offers a lively reconsideration of how The Tempest encourages interpretation and creative appropriation. It includes a wide range of essays on theoretical and practical criticism focusing on the play's original dramatic context, on its signifying processes and its present-time screen remediation.
Literature, Modern.
British literature.
Poetry.
Early Modern/Renaissance Literature.
British and Irish Literature.
Poetry and Poetics.