The Tempest
A Case Study in Critical ControversySecond Edition ©2009
Designed for "teaching the conflicts," this critical edition of Shakespeare’s The Tempest reprints the authoritative Bevington text of the play along with 21 selections representing major critical and cultural controversies surrounding the work. The distinctive editorial material helps reader...
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Designed for "teaching the conflicts," this critical edition of Shakespeare’s The Tempest reprints the authoritative Bevington text of the play along with 21 selections representing major critical and cultural controversies surrounding the work. The distinctive editorial material helps readers grapple not only with the play’s critical issues but also with cultural debates about literature itself.
The second edition includes four new readings, revised headnotes that more helpfully contextualize the critical essays, a portfolio of visual representations of Caliban, and an appendix on writing about critical controversies and The Tempest.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
Authors
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.
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