Shakespeare and The Tempest

The life and work of William Shakespeare

Text of the Tempest

A case study in critical contoversy

Why study critical controversies about the Tempest

Literary study, politics, and Shakespeare: A debate

Sources and contexts

Shakespeare and the Power of Order

postcolonial challenge

responding to the challenge

feminist challenge.

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

Literary politics / George Will

The best way to kill our literary inheritance is to turn it into a decorous celebration of the new world order / Stephen Greenblatt

Sources and contexts

from Of the cannibals / Michel de Montaigne

from True repertory of the wrack / William Strachey

from A discovery of the Barmudes / Sylvester Jourdain

Reasons for colonization / Richard Hakluyt

from Letter to Philip, great prince of Spain / Bartolomé de Las Casas

The monster Caliban / Daniel Wilson

A portfolio of images of Caliban

from The Elizabethan world picture / E.M.W. Tillyard

The "tempest" in the wilderness / Ronald Takaki

Shakespeare and the power of order

from Shakespeare : the final plays / Frank Kermode

The mirror of analogy : The tempest / Reuben A. Brower

The blue-eyed witch / Leah Marcus

The challenge of postcolonial criticism

"This thing of darkness I acknowledge mine" ; The tempest and the discourse of colonialism / Paul Brown

Nymphs and reapers heavily vanish : the discursive con-texts of The tempest / Francis Barker and Peter Hulme

from A tempest / Aimé Césaire

Responding to the challenge

Shakespeare's Tempest and the discourse of colonialism / Deborah Willis

"The duke of Milan, and his brave son"' ; old histories and new in The tempest / David Scott Kastan

Discourse and the individual : the case of colonialism in The tempest / Meredith Anne Skura

The challenge of feminist criticism

from Gender, race, renaissance drama / Ania Loomba

"Miranda, where's your sister?" : reading Shakespeare's The tempest / Ann Thompson

Writing about critical controversy and The tempest.