Below you will find a large amount of texts and topics relevant to the play, as well as resources, which include links to outside sources, which may be used as guides, sources of information, etc. Click on each Section Title below to view the corresponding information.
Baker, David J. "Where Is Ireland in
The Tempest?"
Shakespeare and Ireland: History, Politics, Culture. Ed. Mark Thornton Burnett and Ramona Wray. New York: St. Martin's, 1997. 68-88.
Barker, Francis and Peter Hulme. "Nymphs and Reapers Heavily Vanish: The Discursive Con-texts of
The Tempest."
Alternative Shakespeares. Ed. John Drakakis. London: Methuen, 1985. 206-27.
Bate, Jonathan. "Caliban and Ariel Write Back."
Shakespeare Survey 48(1995): 155-62.
Bevington, David. "
The Tempest and the Jacobean Court Masque."
The Politics of the Stuart Court Masque. Ed. Bevington and Peter Holbrook. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1998. 218-43.
Brown, Paul. "'This Thing of Darkness I Acknowledge Mine':
The Tempest and the Discourse of Colonialism."
Political Shakespeare: New Essays in Cultural Materialism. Ed. Jonathan Dollimore and Alan Sinfield. New York: Cornell University Press, 1985. 48-71.
Burnett, Mark Thornton. "'Strange and Woonderfull Syghts':
The Tempest and the Discourses of Monstrosity."
Shakespeare Survey 50(1997): 187-99.
Demaray, John G.
Shakespeare and the Spectacles of Strangeness: The Tempest and the Transformation of Renaissance Theatrical Forms. Pittsburgh: Duquesne UP, 1998.
Fuchs, Barbara. "Conquering Islands: Contextualizing
The Tempest."
Shakespeare Quarterly 48.1(1997): 45-62.
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Gurr, Andrew. "Industrious Ariel and Idle Caliban."
Travel and Drama in Shakespeare's Time. Ed. Jean-Pierre Maquerlot and Michele Willems. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1996. 193-208.
Johnson, Nora. "Body and Spirit, Stage and Sexuality in
The Tempest."
ELH 64.3(1997): 683-701.
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Kirsch, Arthur. "Virtue, Vice, and Compassion in
Montaigne and
The Tempest."
Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 37.2(1997): 337-52.
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Lie, Nadia and Theo D'haen, eds.
Constellation Caliban: Figurations of a Character. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1997.
Lupton, Julia Reinhard. "Creature Caliban."
Shakespeare Quarterly 51.1(2000): 1-23.
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Pierce, Robert B. "Understanding
The Tempest."
New Literary History 30.2(1999): 373-88.
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Vaughan, Alden T. and Virginia Mason Vaughan.
Shakespeare's Caliban: A Cultural History. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1991.
Wilson, Luke. "Promissory Performances."
Renaissance Drama 25(1994): 59-87.
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Wilson, Richard. "Voyage to Tunis: New History and the Old World of
The Tempest."
ELH 64.2(1997): 333-57.
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