ABSTRACT
The Tempest: Critical Essays traces the history of Shakespeare's controversial late romance from its early reception (and adaptation) in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to the present. The volume reprints influential criticism, and it also offers eight originalessays which study The Tempest from a variety of contemporary perspectives, including cultural materialism, feminism, deconstruction, performance theory, and postcolonial studies. Unlike recent anthologies about The Tempest which reprint contemporary articles along with a few new essays, this volume contains a mixture of old and new materials pertaining to the play's use in the theater and in literary history.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|72 pages
The Tempest and the Critical Legacy
part II|252 pages
The Tempest and the Critics
chapter 17|12 pages
“Remember/First to Possess his Books”
part III|91 pages
Performances of The Tempest
part IV|170 pages
New Essays on The Tempest