The tempest : an authoritative text, sources and contexts, criticism, rewritings and appropriations / William Shakespeare ; edited by Peter Hulme, University of Essex and William H. Sherman, Warburg Institute.

Author: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616, author.

Edition Statement:Second edition.

ImprintNew York : W. W. Norton & Company, [2019]

Descriptionxii, 375 pages : map ; 22 cm.

Note:The Text of The Tempest -- The Tempest -- A Note on the Text -- Textual Notes -- Sources and Contexts -- Magic And Witchcraft -- Ovid [Medea] -- Giovanni Pico della Mirandola From Speech on the Dignity of Man -- Anonymous [Friar Bacon's Magical Exploits] -- William Biddulph [An English Conjuror on the High Seas] -- Reginald Scott [How to Enclose a Spirit] -- King James From Daemonologie --Politics and Religion -- Isaiah XXIX -- Samuel Purchas Virginia's Verger -- Gabriel Naude [Master Strokes of State] -- Geography and Travel -- Anonymous From Primaleon of Greece -- Caspar Gil Polo [A Mediterranean Storm] -- Walter Ralegh A Map of Tunis and Carthage -- Richard Eden [A Voyage to the Patagonians] -- Capt. Wyatt [An Atlantic Storm] -- Michel de Montaigne [The Cannibals of Brazil] -- William Strachey [Storms and Strife in Bermuda] -- Sir Henry Mainwaring From The Seaman's Dictionary -- Criticism -- John Dryden [The Character of Caliban] -- Nicholas Rowe [The Magic of The Tempest] -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge From Notes on The Tempest -- Ludwig Tieck From Shakespeare's Treatment of the Marvellous -- Fanny Kemble From Some Notes on The Tempest -- Henry James [Surrendering to The Tempest] -- Lytton Strachey From Shakespeare's Final Period -- G. Wilson Knight [Prospero's Lonely Magic] -- A Chart of Shakespeare's Dramatic Universe -- Octave Mannoni [Prospero and Caliban] -- George Lamming A Monster, a Child, a Slave -- Stephen Orgel Prospero's Wife -- Coppelia Kahn Caliban at the Stadium: Shakespeare and the Making of Americans -- Julia Reinhard Lupton Creature Caliban -- John Gillies The Figure of the New World in The Tempest -- Michael Neill "Noises, / Sounds, and sweet airs": The Burden of Shakespeare's Tempest -- William H. Sherman Shakespearean Somniloquy: Sleep and Transformation in The Tempest -- Peter Hulme and William H. Sherman Performances and Productions -- Rewritings and Appropriations -- Plays -- John Fletcher and Philip Massinger From The Sea Voyage -- Thomas Heywood From The English Traveller -- John Dryden and William Davenant From The Enchanted Island -- Thomas Duffett From The Mock-Tempest -- Robert and William Brough From The Enchanted Isle -- Percy MacKaye From Caliban by the Yellow Sands -- Aime Cesaire From A Tempest -- Poems -- Percy Bysshe Shelley With a Guitar, to Jane -- Robert Browning From Caliban upon Setebos -- Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis At the Top -- Rainer Maria Rilke The Spirit Ariel -- H.D. From By Avon River -- Kamau Brathwaite From Caliban -- Suniti Namjoshi From Snapshots of Caliban -- Lemuel Johnson Calypso for Caliban -- Heiner Muller [Go Ariel] --Edwin Morgan Ariel Freed -- Ted Hughes Setebos --Robin Kirkpatrick Envoi.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-375).

Note:"This Norton Critical Edition includes the First Folio (1623) text of Shakespeare's best-known romance, accompanied by the editors' preface and detailed explanatory annotations. A rich collection of source materials by Ovid, Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, King James, Michel de Montaigne, and others, centered on the play's major themes: magic, witchcraft, politics, religion, geography, and travel. Seventeen wide-ranging scholarly essays, seven of them new to the Second Edition. Nineteen rescriptings that speak to The Tempest's enduring power and provocation for writers, from Thomas Heywood and Percy Bysshe Shelley to Aime? Ce?saire and Ted Hughes." --Back cover.

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