The Tempest: Sources and Contexts, Criticism, Rewritings and Appropriations (Norton Critical Editions)

The Tempest: Sources and Contexts, Criticism, Rewritings and Appropriations (Norton Critical Editions)

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<p><strong><em>The Tempest</em> presents some of Shakespeare€s most insightful meditations on the cycle of life€•ending and beginning, death and regeneration, bondage and freedom. This Norton Critical Edition is based on the First Folio text and is accompanied by explanatory annotations.</strong></p> €œSources and Contexts€ offers a rich collection of documents on the play€s central themes€•magic and witchcraft, politics and religion, geography and travel. Writers include Ovid, Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Gabriel Naud©, Michel de Montaigne, and William Strachey.<br /><br /> €œCriticism€ collects eighteen responses to <em>The Tempest</em>, from John Dryden and Samuel Taylor Coleridge to Stephen Orgel and Leah Marcus. €œRewritings and Appropriations€ includes creative reactions to <em>The Tempest</em>, by playwrights, filmmakers, and poets, among them H.D., Peter Greenaway, and Ted Hughes.<br /><br /> A Selected Bibliography is also included.