The tempest
Subtitle: a case study in critical controversy
By: William Shakespeare ; edited by Gerald Graff, James Phelan.
Contributors: Graff, Gerald.; Phelan, James, 1951-
Edition: 2nd ed.
Series: Case studies in critical controversy
Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 422
ISBN-13: 9780312457525
Subjects: Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616; Fathers and daughters -- Drama; Political refugees -- Drama; Shipwreck victims -- Drama; Magicians -- Drama; Islands -- Drama; Spirits -- Drama; Caliban (Fictitious character)
Genres: Drama
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Part one: Shakespeare and The tempest; title: The life and work of William Shakespeare; title: The text of The tempest; title: Part two: A case study in critical controversy; title: Why study critical controversies about The tempest?; title: Literary study, politics, and Shakespeare: a debate; title: George Will, Literary politics; title: Stephen Greenblatt, The best way to kill our literary inheritance is to turn it into a decorous celebration of the new world order; title: Sources and contexts; title: Michel de Montaigne, from Of the cannibals; title: William Strachey, from True repertory of the wrack; title: Sylvester Jourdain, from A discovery of the Barmudes; title: Richard Hakluyt, Reasons for colonization; title: Bartolomé de Las Casas, from Letter to Philip, great prince of Spain; title: Daniel Wilson, The monster caliban; title: A portfolio of images of caliban; title: E.M.W. Tillyard, from The elizabethan world picture; title: Ronald Takaki, The "tempest" in the wilderness; title: Shakespeare and the power of order; title: Frank Kermode, from Shakespeare: the final plays; title: Reuben A. Brower, The mirror of analogy: The tempest; title: Leah Marcus, The blue-eyed witch; title: The challenge of postcolonial criticism; title: Paul Brown, "This thing of darkness I acknowledge mine"; The tempest and the discourse of colonialism; title: Francis Barker and Peter Hulme, Nymphs and reapers heavily vanish: the discursive con-texts of The tempest; title: Aimé Césaire, from A tempest; title: Responding to the challenge; title: Deborah Willis, Shakespeare's Tempest and the discourse of colonialism; title: David Scott Kastan, "The duke of Milan / and his brave son"'; old histories and new in The tempest; title: Meredith Anne Skura, Discourse and the individual: the case of colonialism in The tempest; title: The challenge of feminist criticism; title: Ania Loomba, from Gender, race, renaissance drama; title: Ann Thompson, "Miranda, where's your sister?": reading Shakespeare's The tempest; title: Writing about critical controversy and The tempest.