The Tempest - A Case Study in Critical Controversy

List of contents

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

Product details

• Authors: James Phelan, William Shakespeare
• Assisted by: Gerald Graff (Editor), Graff Gerald (Editor)
• Publisher: Macmillan Learning
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.12.2008
• EAN: 9780312457525
• ISBN: 978-0-312-45752-5
• No. of pages: 432
• Dimensions: 141 mm x 212 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 450 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; DRAMA / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General, Theatre Studies, Literature: history & criticism, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Literature: history and criticism, Plays, Playscripts, Classic and pre-20th century plays, Literary studies: plays and playwrights