The Tempest Third Series

by Shakespeare, William; Vaughan, Alden T.; Vaughan, Virginia Mason

• ISBN13: 9781903436080
• ISBN10: 1903436087
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-08-13
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare

Summary

The Tempest has long dazzled readers and audiences with its intricate blend of magic, music, humour, intrigue and tenderness, its vibrant but ambiguous central characters. As Virginia and Alden Vaughan show, in their wide-ranging new edition of this established favourite, such antithetical extremes exemplify the play's endlessly arguable nature, its appeal to diverse eras and cultures. The Vaughans situate The Tempest at the centre of changing cultural attitudes towards colonialism, power politics and patriarchal hierarchies, and demonstrate how the play both shaped and reflected those changing attitudes. Informed by the concerns of a post-colonial international community, their edition emphasizes the play's world-wide cultural appropriation, and includes an extensive discussion of the play's after-life as well as an appendix of selected appropriations. The interdisciplinary editorial approach contributes a distinctively blended cultural and historical focus. ?The Vaughans have provided a valuable new edition of the play, one whose expanded contextualisation, especially, will contribute to The Tempest's lively and varied afterlife both within and beyond the classroom.? Barbara Fuchs, University of Washington, Seattle, Shakespeare Quarterly

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	ix
General editors' preface	xii
Preface	xvii
Introduction	1	(2)
The play	3	(33)
Genesis and early performances	6	(3)
Genre	9	(5)
Structure	14	(3)
Music	17	(3)
Language	20	(3)
Characters	23	(13)
The context	36	(37)
Domestic politics	37	(2)
Brave new world	39	(8)
Africa and Ireland	47	(7)
Literary forerunners	54	(2)
Classical models	56	(3)
The `salvage man'	59	(3)
Magic	62	(11)
The afterlife	73	(51)
Restoration rewritings	76	(6)
Eighteenth-century ambivalence	82	(2)
Romanticism	84	(14)
Perspectives on imperialism	98	(10)
Re-enter Miranda	108	(2)
Freudian influences	110	(2)
`The Tempest' on stage and film since 1900	112	(12)
The text	124	(15)
Ralph Crane's manuscript	126	(4)
Editorial practice	130	(3)
Cruxes	133	(6)
THE TEMPEST	139	(148)
Appendix 1: Sources	287	(28)
1 Strachey, `True Reportory'	287	(16)
2 Montaigne, `Of the Caniballes'	303	(12)
Appendix 2: Appropriations	315	(28)
1 Browning, `Caliban upon Setebos'	315	(10)
2 Rodo, Ariel	325	(6)
3 Mannoni, Prospero and Caliban	331	(12)
Abbreviations and references	343	(16)
Abbreviations used in notes	343	(1)
Editions of Shakespeare collated	344	(2)
Other works	346	(13)
Index	359