The tempest: a case study in critical controversy

Part one: Shakespeare and The tempest

The life and work of William Shakespeare

The text of The tempest

Part two: A case study in critical controversy

Why study critical controversies about The tempest?

Literary study, politics, and Shakespeare: a debate

George Will, Literary politics

Stephen Greenblatt, The best way to kill our literary inheritance is to turn it into a decorous celebration of the new world order

Sources and contexts

Michel de Montaigne, from Of the cannibals

William Strachey, from True repertory of the wrack

Sylvester Jourdain, from A discovery of the Barmudes

Richard Hakluyt, Reasons for colonization

Bartolomé de Las Casas, from Letter to Philip, great prince of Spain

Daniel Wilson, The monster caliban

A portfolio of images of caliban

E.M.W. Tillyard, from The elizabethan world picture

Ronald Takaki, The "tempest" in the wilderness

Shakespeare and the power of order

Frank Kermode, from Shakespeare: the final plays

Reuben A. Brower, The mirror of analogy: The tempest

Leah Marcus, The blue-eyed witch

The challenge of postcolonial criticism

Paul Brown, "This thing of darkness I acknowledge mine"; The tempest and the discourse of colonialism

Francis Barker and Peter Hulme, Nymphs and reapers heavily vanish: the discursive con-texts of The tempest

Aimé Césaire, from A tempest

Responding to the challenge

Deborah Willis, Shakespeare's Tempest and the discourse of colonialism

David Scott Kastan, "The duke of Milan / and his brave son"'; old histories and new in The tempest

Meredith Anne Skura, Discourse and the individual: the case of colonialism in The tempest

The challenge of feminist criticism

Ania Loomba, from Gender, race, renaissance drama

Ann Thompson, "Miranda, where's your sister?": reading Shakespeare's The tempest

Writing about critical controversy and The tempest.

Shakespeare and The Tempest

The life and work of William Shakespeare

Text of the Tempest

A case study in critical contoversy

Why study critical controversies about the Tempest

Literary study, politics, and Shakespeare: A debate

Sources and contexts

Shakespeare and the Power of Order

postcolonial challenge

responding to the challenge

feminist challenge