The tempest : a case study in critical controversy /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
Other Authors: Graff, Gerald, Phelan, James, 1951-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boston : Bedford/St. Martin's, [2009]
Edition:2nd ed.
Series:Case studies in critical controversy.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • 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 Barmudes
  • Richard Hakluyt, Reasons for colonization
  • Bartolomé de Las Casas, from Letter to Philip, great prince of Spain
  • Daniel Wilson, The monster caliban
  • A portfolio of images of caliban
  • E.M.W. Tillyard, from The elizabethan world picture
  • 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
  • Leah Marcus, The blue-eyed witch
  • The challenge of postcolonial criticism
  • 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 con-texts of The tempest
  • Aimé Césaire, from A tempest
  • Responding to the challenge
  • Deborah Willis, Shakespeare's Tempest and the discourse of colonialism
  • David Scott Kastan, "The duke of Milan / and his brave son"'; old histories and new in The tempest
  • Meredith Anne Skura, Discourse and the individual: the case of colonialism in The tempest
  • The challenge of feminist criticism
  • Ania Loomba, from Gender, race, renaissance drama
  • Ann Thompson, "Miranda, where's your sister?": reading Shakespeare's The tempest
  • Writing about critical controversy and The tempest.