Preface
The Text of The Tempest
The Tempest
A Note on the Text
Sources and Contexts
MAGIC AND WITCHCRAFT
Ovid·[Medea]
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola·Oration on the Dignity of Man
Anonymous·[Frair Bacon’s Magical Exploits]
William Biddulph·[An English Conjuror on the High Seas]
Reginald Scott·[How to Enclose a Spirit]
POLITICS AND RELIGION
Anonymous·Isaiah XXIX
Samuel Purchas·Virginia’s Verger
Gabriel Naudé·[Master Strokes of State]
GEOGRAPHY AND TRAVEL
Anonymous·Primaleon of Greece
Gaspar Gil Polo·[A Mediterranean Storm]
Richard Eden·[A Voyage to the Patagonias]
Capt. Wyatt·[An Atlantic Storm]
Michel de Montaigne·[The Cannibals of Brazil]
William Strachey·[Storms and Strife in Bermuda]
Sir Henry Mainwaring·The Seaman’s Dictionary
Criticism
John Dryden·The Character of Caliban
Nicholas Rowe·[The Magic of The Tempest]
Samuel Taylor Coleridge·Notes on The Tempest
Ludwig Tieck·Shakespeare’s Treatment of the Marvellous
Fanny Kemble·Some Notes on The Tempest
Henry James·Surrendering to The Tempest
Lytton Strachey·Shakespeare’s Final Period
G. Wilson Knight·[Prospero’s Lonely Magic]
Frank Kermode·[Art vs. Nature]
George Lamming·A Monster, a Child, a Slave
Barbara Mowat·Prospero, Agrippa, and Hocus Pocus
David Lindley·Music, Masque, and Meaning in The Tempest
Stephen Orgel·Prospero’s Wife
John Gillies·Shakespeare’s Virginian Masque
Peter Hulme·Prospero and Caliban
Andrew Gurr·The Tempest’s Tempest at Blackfrairs
Barbara Fuchs·Conquering Islands: Contextualizing The Tempest
Leah Marcus·The Blue-Eyed Witch
Rewritings and Appropriations
DRAMA AND FILM
John Fletcher and Philip Massinger·The Sea Voyage
Thomas Heywood·The English Traveller
John Dryden and William Davenant·The Enchanged Island
Thomas Duffett·The Mock-Tempest
Robert and William Brough·[Raising the Wind]
Aimé Césaire·A Tempest
Peter Greenaway·Prospero’s Books
POEMS
Percy Bysshe Shelley·With a Guitar: To Jane
Robert Browning·Caliban upon Setebos; or, Natural Theology in the Island
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis·At the Top
Rainer Maria Rilke·The Spirit Ariel
H. D.·By Avon River
Suniti Namjoshi·Snapshots of Caliban
Lemuel Johnson·Calypso for Caliban
Heiner Müller·[Go Ariel]
Edwin Morgan·Ariel Freed
Ted Hughes·Setebos
Selected Bibliography