• Medientyp: Buch
  • Titel: The Tempest : a critical reader
  • Enthält: Introduction / Alden T. Vaughan
    The critical backstory : "What's Past is Prologue" / Virginia Mason Vaughan
    A theatre of attraction : colonialism, gender, and The Tempest's performance history / Eckart Voigts
    Recent perspectives on The Tempest / Brinda Charry
    New directions : sources and creativity in The Tempest / Andrew Gurr
    New directions : Commedia dell'Arte, The Tempest, and transnational criticism / Helen Whall
    New directions : "He needs will be Absolute Milan" : the political thought of The Tempest / Jeffrey A. Rufo
    New directions : Shakespeare's revolution - The Tempest as scientific romance / Scott Maisano
    "Volumes that / I prize" : resources for studying and teaching The Tempest / Nathaniel Amos Rothschild
  • Beteiligte: Vaughan, Virginia Mason [VerfasserIn]; Vaughan, Alden T. [VerfasserIn]
  • Erschienen: London; New Delhi; New York; Sydney: Bloomsbury, 2014
  • Erschienen in: Arden early modern drama guides
  • Umfang: xviii, 278 Seiten; Illustrationen
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • ISBN: 1472518403; 1472518438; 9781472518439; 9781472518408
  • RVK-Notation: HI 3481 : Märchenspiele; Romanzen
  • Schlagwörter: Shakespeare, William
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  • Anmerkungen: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 265-270
  • Beschreibung: The Tempest continues to be one of Shakespeare's most popular, malleable and controversial plays. It contains sublime poetry and catchy songs, magic and low comedy, while it tackles important contemporary concerns: education, power politics, the effects of colonization, and technology.

    "A collection of new essays offering students a range of current perspectives on The Tempest, providing both context and critical overviews"--

    "The Tempest, the last play Shakespeare wrote without a collaborator, has become a key text in school and university curricula, not simply in early modern literature courses but in postcolonial and history programs as well. One of Shakespeare's most frequently performed plays, The Tempest is also of great interest to a general audience. This volume will outline the play's most important critical issues and suggest new avenues of research in a format accessible to students, teachers, and the general reader"--

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