Understanding The Tempest : a student casebook to issues, sources, and historical documents / Faith Nostbakken.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nostbakken, Faith, 1964-

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Greenwood Press "Literature in context" series

The Greenwood Press "Literature in context" series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Tempest.

Shakespeare, William.

Shipwreck survival in literature.

Airplane crash survival in literature.

Castaways in literature.

Islands in literature.

Tragicomedy.

Physical Description:

xviii, 195 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Westport, CT : Greenwood Press, 2004.

Summary:

The Tempest has always been one of Shakespeare's most entertaining and enchanting plays, yet it continues to stir passionate debate throughout the world because of its ideas and attitudes toward race, class, political power, and colonialism. This casebook systematically examines these issues, as well as several others, from dramatic and historical perspectives, and through parallel contemporary applications. Following a "Dramatic Analysis," each topic chapter presents an important historical issue in the play, with insightful narrative essays supported by primary documents. In several chapters, brief chronologies of significant related events help readers understand the historical context of the play and its thematic concerns. As a tool for student research and classroom work, educators will appreciate the numerous "Topics for Written and Oral Discussion" suggested at the conclusion of each unit. "Suggested Readings" further complement the content and research applications of the casebook.

Contents:

Introduction: For Students and Teachers xv

1. Dramatic Analysis 1

2. Colonialism: The Discoverer and the Discovered 25

from: William Strachey, A True Repertory of the Wrack, and Redemption of Sir Thomas Gates, Knight; Upon, and From the Ilands of the Bermudas: His Coming to Virginia, and the Estate of that Colony Then, and After, under the Government of the Lord La Warre, 1610, in Samuel Purchas, Purchas His Pilgrimes, Vol. XIX (1625) 31

from: Sylvester Jourdain, A Discovery of the Barmudas, Otherwise Called the Isle of Devils (1610) 36

from: A True Declaration of the Estate of the Colony in Virginia, With a Confutation of Such Scandalous Reports as Have Tended to the Disgrace of So Worthy an Enterprise (1610), in Geoffrey Bullough, ed., Narrative and Dramatic Sources of Shakespeare, Vol. VIII (1975) 38

from: Michel de Montaigne, "Of the Cannibals," in The Essays of Montaigne, Trans. John Florio (1603), 1892 40

3. Magic: Religion, Art, and Science 45

from: Sir Walter Raleigh, The History of the World (1614) 57

from: Reginald Scot, The Discovery of Witchcraft (1584), Intro. by Hugh Ross Williamson (1964) 60

from: King James the First, Demonology (1597), Ed. G. B. Harrison, Elizabethan and Jacobean Quartos (1966) 64

from: John Dee, A Letter, Containing a Most Brief Discourse Apologeticall (1604) 69

from: Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus (1592), in The Complete Plays, Ed. J. B. Steane (1986) 72

from: Ben Jonson, The Alchemist (1610), Ed. F. H. Mares (1967) 73

4. Power: Legitimacy and Treachery 79

from: A True and Perfect Relation of the Whole Proceeding Against the Late Most Barbarous Traitors, Garnet a Jesuit and His Confederates (1606) 89

from: King James I, Basilicon Doron (1599), in The Political Works of James I, Ed. Charles Howard McIlwain (1918) 91

from: King James VI and I, A Speech to the Lords and Commons of the Parliament at White-hall, March 1609, in The Political Works of James I, Ed. Charles Howard McIlwain (1918) 93

from: Elizabeth Read Foster, ed., Proceedings in Parliament (1610), Vol. 2 (1966) 96

from: Samuel Rawson Gardiner, Parliamentary Debates in 1610, Edited, from the Notes of a Member of the House of Commons (1862) 97

from: Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince (1513), Harvard Classics Collection (1910) 98

5. Society: Marriage and the Court 105

from: William Shakespeare, Sonnet 18 (c. 1590s), in The Riverside Shakespeare, Ed. G. Blakemore Evans et al. (1974) 114

from: Thomas Becon, A New Catechism (1564) 115

from: John Dod and Robert Cleaver, A Godly Form of Household Government: For the Ordering of Private Families, According to the Direction of God's Word (1598) 117

from: "The Magnificent Marriage of the Two Great Princes Frederick Count Palatine, &c. and the Lady Elizabeth," in The Progresses, Processions, and Magnificent Festivities of King James the First, His Royal Consort, Family, and Court, Vol. II (1828)|p119

from: Ben Jonson, The Masque of Blackness (1605), in Court Masques: Jacobean and Caroline Entertainments, Ed. David Lindley (1995) 124

6. Performance and Interpretation 129

from: Daniel Wilson, Caliban: The Missing Link (1873) 140

from: Ralph Berry, On Directing Shakespeare: Interviews with Contemporary Directors (1989) 142

from: John Goodwin, ed., Peter Hall's Diaries: The Story of a Dramatic Battle (1983) 144

from: John Gielgud, An Actor and His Time (1979) 145

from: David L. Hirst, The Tempest: Text and Performance (1984) 146

from: Roger Warren, Staging Shakespeare's Late Plays (1990) 147

from: Octave Mannoni, Prospero and Caliban: The Psychology of Colonization (1950), Trans. Pamela Powesland (1964) 148

7. Contemporary Applications 155

from: David Blair, Degrees in Violence: Robert Mugabe and the Struggle for Power in Zimbabwe (2002) 161

from: Martin Meredith, Our Votes, Our Guns: Robert Mugabe and the Tragedy of Zimbabwe (2002) 162

from: Susan Raghavan, "Zimbabwe's Land-Reform Policies Add to Hunger Crisis" (November 24, 2002) 163

from: George Soros, On Globalization (2003) 172

from: William K. Tabb, Unequal Partners: A Primer on Globalization (2002) 173

from: Naomi Klei, No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies (2000) 174

from: Amory Starr, Naming the Enemy: Anti-Corporate Movements Confront Globalization (2000) 174

from: Larry Kettelkamp, Investigating Psychics: Five Life Histories (1977) 179

from: Gary L. Blackwood, Secrets of the Unexplained: Paranormal Powers (1999) 179

from: J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit (1937) 183

from: J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings; Part One: The Fellowship of the Ring (1954-55), 1966 184

from: J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings; Part Two: The Two Towers (1954-55), 1966 184

from: J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (1997) 185.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0313328730

OCLC:

54487507