The Tempest presents some of Shakespeare's most insightful meditations on the cycle of life-ending and beginning, death and regeneration, bondage and freedom.
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) was a poet, playwright, and actor who is widely regarded as one of the most influential writers in the history of the English language. Often referred to as the Bard of Avon, Shakespeare's vast body of work includes comedic, tragic, and historical plays; poems; and 154 sonnets. His dramatic works have been translated into every major language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright.
Shakespeare: An Overview
p. vii
Biographical Sketch
p. vii
A Note on the Anti-Stratfordians, Especially Baconians and Oxfordians
p. xi
The Shakespeare Canon
p. xv
Shakespeare's English
p. xviii
Shakespeare's Theater
p. xxvi
A Note on the Use of Boy Actors in Female Roles
p. xxxiv
Shakespeare's Dramatic Language: Costumes, Gestures and Silences; Prose and Poetry
p. xxxvi
The Play Text as a Collaboration
p. xliv
Editing Texts
p. l
Shakespeare on the Stage
p. lv
Introduction
p. lxiii
The Tempest
p. l
Textual Note
p. 89
The Sources of The Tempest
p. 91
William Strachey: From True Repertory of the Wrack
p. 93
Sylvester Jourdain: From A Discovery of the Barmudas
p. 99
Council of Virginia: From The True Declaration of the Estate of the Colony in Virginia
p. 100
Michel de Montaigne: From Of the Cannibals
p. 102
Ovid: From Metamorphoses
p. 104
Commentaries
Samuel Taylor Coleridge: From The Lectures of 1811-1812, Lecture IX
p. 106
E.M.W. Tillyard: The Tragic Pattern: The Tempest
p. 119
Bernard Knox: The Tempest and the Ancient Comic Tradition
p. 128
Lorie Jerrell Leininger: The Miranda Trap: Sexism and Racism in Shakespeare's Tempest
p. 146
Stephen Greenblatt: The Use of Salutary Anxiety in The Tempest
p. 156
Sylvan Barnet: The Tempest on Stage and Screen
p. 180
Suggested References
p. 191
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