Cover: The Tempest, 2nd Edition by William Shakespeare; Edited by Gerald Graff and James Phelan

The Tempest

Second  Edition©2009  William Shakespeare; Edited by Gerald Graff and James Phelan

ISBN:9780312457525

About

Containing 21 selections, in addition to Shakespeares play, representing major critical and cultural controversies surrounding the work, this critical edition of The Tempest gives you a broad enough range of information to easily explore the plays critical issues along with broader cultural debates about literature itself.

Table of Contents

Preface

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 Barmudas"

Richard Hakluyt," Reasons for Colonization"

Bartolomé De Las Casas, from "Letter to Phillip, Great Prince of Spain"

New Daniel Wilson, "The Monster Caliban"

New A Portfolio of Images of Caliban

New E. M.W. Tilyard, From The Great Chain of Being

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"

New Leah Marcus, "The Blue-Eyed Witch"

The Postcolonial Challenge

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 Contexts of The Tempest"

New Aimé Césaire, Scenes from A Tempest

Responding to the Challenge

Deborah Willis, "Shakespeare’s Tempest and the Discourse of Colonialism"

David Scott Kastian, " ‘The Duke of Milan /And His Brave Son’: Old Histories and New in The Tempest"

Meredith Anne Skura, from "Discourse and the Individual: The Case of Colonialism in The Tempest"

The Feminist Challenge

Ania Loomba, from Gender, Race, Renaissance Drama

Ann Thompson, " ‘Miranda, Where’s Your Sister?’: Reading Shakespeare’s

The Tempest"

New Writing about Critical Controversy in The Tempest

William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) was an English dramatist and poet. He is regarded as the greatest writer in the English language.

James Phelan

James Phelan is a professor of English and chair of the English department at the Ohio State University.  He is editor of the award-winning journal Narrative,  and has written and edited several books on literary theory, including Worlds from Words (1981), Reading People, Reading Plots (1989), and Narrative as Rhetoric (1996), and has published a memoir of teaching literature in the academy, Beyond the Tenure Track (1991).  With Gerald Graff, he is coeditor of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: A Case Study in Critical Controversy (1995).

Gerald Graff

Gerald Graff is coeditor with James Phelan of two Bedford Case Studies in Critical Controversy, Adventure of Huckleberry Finn and The Tempest, both in second editions.  He is one of the most eminent figures in literary studies and education today through his influential pedagogy of "teaching the conflicts," which he developed as a professor of English at Northwestern University and the University of Chicago, and as a professor of English and Education in his current position at the University of Illinois at Chicago.  His other widely read books include Professing Literarture (1987), Beyond the Culture Wars (1992), Clueless in Academe (2003), and (with Cathy Birkenstein) the textbook They Say/I Say.  He served as President of the Modern Language Association of America in 2008.