The Tempest (Norton Critical Edition) » (1st Edition)

Peter Hulme is Professor of Literature at the University of Essex. He is the author of Colonial Encounters: Europe and the Native Caribbean, 1492-1797 and Remnants of Conquest: The Caribs and Their Visitors, 1877-1998. He is co-editor, with William H. Sherman, of The Tempest and Its Travels and, with Tim Young, of the Cambridge Companion to Travel Writing.

William H. Sherman is Professor of Early Modern Studies in the Department of English and Related Literature at the University of York. He is the author of John Dee: The Politics of Reading and Writing in the English Renaissance and of many articles on Renaissance literature, travel writing, and the history of the book.He has also edited The Tempest and Its Travels with Peter Hulme, and the new Cambridge edition of Ben Jonson's The Alchemist with Peter Holland.

The Tempest presents some of Shakespeare’s most insightful meditations on the cycle of life—ending and beginning, death and regeneration, bondage and freedom. This Norton Critical Edition is based on the First Folio text and is accompanied by explanatory annotations.

Preface

PART I. SHAKESPEARE AND THE TEMPEST
Introduction: The Life and Work of William Shakespeare
The Text of The Tempest

PART II. A CASE STUDY IN CRITICAL CONTROVERSY
Introduction: 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 Heritage 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 Wreck
Sylvester Jourdain, from A Discovery of the Barmudas
Richard Hakluyt, Reasons for Colonization
Bartolome de la Casas, from Letter to Philip, Great Prince of Spain
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

The Postcolonial Challenge
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
Aime Cesaire, A Tempest, Scene 2

Responding to the Challenge
Deborah Willis, Shakespeare's Tempest and the Discourse ofColonialism
David Scott Kastan, "The Duke of Milan/And His Brave Son": Dynastic Politics in The Tempest
Meredith Anne Skura, Discourse and the Individual: The Case of Colonialism in The Tempest

The Feminist Challenge
Ania Loomba, from Gender, Race, Renaissance Drama
Ann Thompson, "Miranda, Where's Your Sister? Reading Shakespeare's Tempest