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Informationen zum Autor Brinda Charry is Associate Professor of English at Syracuse University, USA. Born and raised in India, she completed her doctoral degree at Syracuse University, NY before moving to Keene in 2005 to teach early modern British literature and culture. Her areas of research and scholarship include Shakespeare, intercultural encounters in the 16th and 17th centuries, and constructions of race and religious difference in the time period. Charry is also a writer of fiction and has published two novels The Hottest Day of the Year and Naked in the Wind , as well as a collection of short-stories entitled First Love . Brian Vickers is a Fellow of the British Academy and a Distinguished Senior Fellow in The School of Advanced Study, University of London. Joseph Candido is Professor of English at the University of Arkansas, USA. He has published extensively on Shakespeare and Renaissance drama, particularly the Elizabethan and Jacobean history play. He is the editor of King John in the series Shakespeare: The Critical Tradition, and is editor of The Text, the Play, and the Globe: Essays on Literary Influence in Shakespeare’s World and His Work in Honor of Charles R. Forker (2016). Klappentext The Tempest : Critical Tradition increases our knowledge of how Shakespeare's plays were received and understood by critics, editors and general readers. The volume offers, in separate sections, both critical opinions about the play across the centuries and an evaluation of their positions within and their impact on the reception of the play. The volume features criticism from key literary figures, such as Ben Jonson, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Dryden, John Ruskin and Edward Malone. The chronological arrangement of the text-excerpts engages the readers in a direct and unbiased dialogue, whereas the introduction offers a critical evaluation from a current stance, including modern theories and methods. Thus the volume makes a major contribution to our understanding of the play and of the traditions of Shakespearean criticism surrounding it as they have developed from century to century. Inhaltsverzeichnis GENERAL EDITORS' PREFACE PERMISSIONS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I INTRODUCTION II THE CRITICAL TRADITION 1. EDMOND MALONE, date of composition, 1790 2. WILLIAM TAYLOR, as tragicomedy , 1795 3. GEORGE CHALMERS, New World voyages, 1795 4. EDMOND MALONE, Virginia Voyages , 1808 5. AUGUST WILHELM SCHLEGEL, as poetry, 1809-11 6. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE, commentary, 1811-12 7. WILLIAM HAZLITT, commentary , 1817 8. EDMOND MALONE, Caliban as savage, 1821 9. CHARLES LAMB, The Tempest staged,1822 10. ANNA JAMESON, on Miranda, 1832 11. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE, as romantic drama, 1836 12. THOMAS CAMPBELL, Shakespeare as Prospero, 1838 13. JOSEPH HUNTER, the Mediterranean, 1839 14. WASHINGTON IRVING, The Tempest and America, 1840 15. PATRICK MACDONNELL, on Caliban, 1840 16. CHARLES KNIGHT, commentary , 1843 17. HERMANN ULRICI, the wonderful and the real, 1846 18. W.J. BIRCH, religion , 1848 19. JOHN RUSKIN, slavery, 1872 20. DANIEL WILSON, Caliban as the ‘missing link’, 1873 21. EDWARD DOWDEN, Shakespeare as Prospero, 1875 22. A.C. SWINBURNE, commentary , 1880 23. FRANCES ANNE KEMBLE, commentary , 1882 24. HORACE HOWARD FURNESS, on Caliban, 1895 25. GEORGE BERNARD SHAW, review , 1897 26. RUDYARD KIPLING, commentary, 1898 27. FRANK BRISTOL, The Tempest and America, 1898 28. LUCE MORTON, commentary , 1901 29. ASHLEY THORNDIKE, the influence of Beaumont and Fletcher , 1901 30. EVERETT EDWARD HALE, commentary , 1903 31. W.W. NEWELL, The Tempest and fo...
