| Description |
ix, 212 pages ; 22 cm |
| Series |
New casebooks |
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New casebooks.
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| Contents |
Introduction: Prospero 2000: R. S. White -- 1. Prospero's Wife / Stephen Orgel -- 2. Nymphs and Reapers Heavily Vanish: the Discursive Con-texts of The Tempest / Francis Barker and Peter Hulme -- 3. Playhouse - Workhouse / Terence Hawkes -- 4. Subtleties of the Isle: The Tempest / Ruth Nevo -- 5. Martial Law in the Land of Cockaigne / Stephen Greenblatt -- 6. 'Thought is Free': The Tempest / Annabel Patterson -- 7. Seizing the Book / Ania Loomba -- 8. 'Miranda, Where's Your Sister?': Reading Shakespeare's The Tempest / Ann Thompson -- 9. 'What cares these roarers for the name of king?': Language and Utopia in The Tempest / David Norbrook -- 10. 'The open worlde': the Exotic in Shakespeare / John Gillies |
| Summary |
The Tempest has not only generated many creative adaptations in drama, poetry, novels and films, but it has also proved a testing ground for virtually all the new literary theories available. This selection gives examples from cultural studies, feminism, psychological criticism, political readings, new historicism, postcolonialism, new geography and other approaches. The book will give students an understanding of the bases of contemporary criticism, and it will give insights into Shakespeare's text from a rich variety of perspectives |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Tempest.
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| Genre/Form |
Tragicomedies.
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| Author |
White, R. S., 1948-
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| LC no. |
98031609 |
| ISBN |
0312220316 (St. Martin's Press) |
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0333644417 (Macmillan, hardcover) |
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0333644425 (Macmillan, pbk) |
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0333693450 (series standing order, pbk.) |
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0333717023 (series standing order, cased) |
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