The tempest : sources and contexts, criticism, rewritings and appropriations

Author(s)

• Shakespeare, William
• Hulme, Peter
• Sherman, William H. (William Howard)

Bibliographic Information

The tempest : sources and contexts, criticism, rewritings and appropriations

William Shakespeare ; edited by Peter Hulme and William H. Sherman

（Norton critical editions）

W.W. Norton, c2004

• : pbk

Other Title

The tempest : an authoritative text, sources and contexts, criticism, rewritings and appropriations

Note

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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Details

• NCID: BA66619532
• ISBN:
  • 9780393978193
• LCCN: 2003060936
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York ; London
• Pages/Volumes: xi, 355 p.
• Size: 22 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PR2833.A2
  • DC22 : 822.3/3
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc -- Drama
  • LCSH : Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Tempest
  • LCSH : Fathers and daughters -- Drama
  • LCSH : Castaways -- Drama
  • LCSH : Magicians -- Drama
  • LCSH : Islands -- Drama
  • FREE : Tragicomedy. lcsh
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00246310