The Tempest

FRANCIS BARKER Professor of Literature at the University of Essex JOHN GILLIES Lecturer in Theatre and Drama at La Trobe University, Melbourne STEPHEN GREENBLATT Lecturer in English at Berkeley and Harvard Universities TERENCE HAWKES Professor of English at the University of Wales, Cardiff PETER HULME Professor of Literature at the University of Essex ANIA LOOMBA Associate Professor at the Centre for Linguistics and English at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi RUTH NEVO Formerly Lecturer at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem DAVID NORBROOK Fellow at Magdalen College, Oxford STEPHEN ORGEL Jackson Eli Reynolds Professor of Humanities at Stanford University ANNABEL PATTERSON Karl Young Professor of English at Yale University ANN THOMPSON Professor of English and Head of Department at Roehampton Institute, University of London

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.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.