The Tempest: A Critical Reader

The Tempest contains sublime poetry and catchy songs, magic and low comedy, while it tackles important contemporary concerns: education, power politics, the effects of colonization, and technology. In this guide, Alden T. Vaughan and Virginia Mason Vaughan open up new ways into one of Shakespeare''s most popular, malleable and controversial plays.>

Table des matières

List of Illustrations
Series Introduction
Notes on Contributors
Timeline
Introduction (Alden T. Vaughan, Columbia University, USA, Clark University, USA)
1 The Critical Backstory: 'What's Past is Prologue' (Virginia Mason Vaughan, Clark University, USA)
2 A Theatre of Attraction: Colonialism, Gender, and The Tempest's Performance History (Eckart Voigts, TU Braunschweig, Germany)
3 Recent Perspectives on The Tempest (Brinda Charry, Keene State College, USA)
4 New Directions: Sources and Creativity in The Tempest (Andrew Gurr, University of Reading, UK)
5 New Directions: Commedia dell'Arte, The Tempest, and Transnational Criticism (Helen M. Whall, College of the Holy Cross, USA)
6 New Directions: 'He needs will be Absolute Milan': The Political Thought of The Tempest
(Jeffrey A. Rufo, Rutgers University, USA)
7 New Directions: Shakespeare's Revolution - The Tempest as Scientific Romance (Scott Maisano, University of Massachusetts Boston, USA)
8 'volumes that / I prize': Resources for Studying and Teaching The Tempest (Nathaniel Amos Rothschild, St Thomas Aquinas College, USA)
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Alden T Vaughan, Prof. Virginia Mason Vaughan Vaughan, Virginia Vaughan, Virginia Mason Vaughan, Virginia Mason Vaughan Vaughan
• Collaboration: Andrew Hiscock (Editeur), Lisa Hopkins (Editeur), Alden T. Vaughan (Editeur), Alden T. Vaughan (Editeur), Prof. Virginia Mason Vaughan (Editeur), Virginia Mason Vaughan (Editeur)
• Edition: Arden shakespeare
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Broché
• Sortie: 25.09.2014
• EAN: 9781472518408
• ISBN: 978-1-4725-1840-8
• Pages: 296
• Dimensions: 124 mm x 196 mm x 18 mm
• Thèmes: Arden Early Modern Drama Guides; Arden Early Modern Drama Guide; Arden Early Modern Drama Guides; Arden Early Modern Drama Guide
• Catégories: Littérature > Poésie, théâtre; Sciences humaines, art, musique > Linguistique et littérature > Littérature générale et comparée