The tempest : sources and contexts, criticism, rewritings and appropriations
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The tempest : sources and contexts, criticism, rewritings and appropriations
(Norton critical editions)
W.W. Norton, c2004
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The tempest : an authoritative text, sources and contexts, criticism, rewritings and appropriations
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 351-355)
Description and Table of Contents
Description
"Sources and Contexts" offers a rich collection of documents on the play's central themes-magic and witchcraft, politics and religion, geography and travel. Writers include Ovid, Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Gabriel Naude, Michel de Montaigne, and William Strachey.
"Criticism" collects eighteen responses to The Tempest, from John Dryden and Samuel Taylor Coleridge to Stephen Orgel and Leah Marcus. "Rewritings and Appropriations" includes creative reactions to The Tempest, by playwrights, filmmakers, and poets, among them H.D., Peter Greenaway, and Ted Hughes.
A Selected Bibliography is also included.
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