The Tempest ( PDFDrive )

388 Pages·2007·7.38 MB·English

by  William Shakespeare

THE ARDEN S H A K E S P E A RE
THIRD SERIES
General Editors: Richard Proudfoot, Ann Thompson
and David Scott Kastan
THE
TEMPEST
THE ARDEN SHAKESPEARE
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THE TEMPEST edited by Virginia Mason Vaughan
and Alden T. Vaughan
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THE ARDEN S H A K E S P E A RE
THE
T E M P E ST
Edited by
VIRGINIA MASON VAUGHAN
and ALDEN T. VAUGHAN
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The general editors of the Arden Shakespeare have been
W. J. Craig and R. H. Case (first series 1899-1944)
Una Ellis-Fermor, Harold F. Brooks, Harold Jenkins and
Brian Morris (second series 1946-82)
Present general editors (third series)
Richard Proudfoot, Ann Thompson and David Scott Kastan
This edition of The Tempest, by Virginia Mason Vaughan
and Alden T. Vaughan,
first published 1999 by Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd
Published by The Arden Shakespeare
Reprinted 2001
Editorial matter © 1999 Virginia Mason Vaughan &
Alden T Vaughan
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The Editors
Virginia Mason Vaughan, Professor of English and
former Chair of the English Department at Clark
University in Worcester, Massachusetts, has published
essays on Shakespeare's history plays and three books on
Shakespeare's Othello: the annotated bibliography in the
Garland Shakespeare series, compiled with Margaret
Lael Mikesell (1990); an anthology, 'Othello': New
Perspectives (1991), coedited with Kent Cartwright; and
'Othello': A Contextual History (1994).
Alden T. Vaughan, Professor Emeritus of History at
Columbia University, has published widely on England's
American colonies in the seventeenth and eighteenth
centuries, especially on their racial perceptions and poli
cies. His most recent historical book is Roots of American
Racism (1995). Earlier titles include New England
Frontier: Puritans and Indians, 1620-1675 (3rd edn
1995); American Genesis: Captain John Smith and the
Founding of Virginia (1975); and, coedited with Edward
W. Clark, Puritans among the Indians: Accounts of
Captivity and Redemption, 1676-1724 (1981).
The Vaughans are coauthors of Shakespeare's Caliban:
A Cultural History (1991) and coeditors of Critical Essays
on Shakespeare's 'The Tempest' (1998).
To the staff of the
Folger Shakespeare Library
'Thou hast done well'
(The Tempest, 1.2.495)
CONTENTS
List of illustrations ix
General editors' preface xii
Preface xvii
Introduction 1
The play 3
Genesis and early performances 6
Genre 9
Structure 14
Music 17
Language 20
Characters 23
The context 36
Domestic politics 37
Brave new world 39
Africa and Ireland 47
Literary forerunners 54
Classical models 56
The 'salvage man ' 59
Magic- 62
Masque 67
The afterlife 73
Restoration rewritings 76
Eighteenth-century ambivalence 82
Romanticism 84
Perspectives on imperialism 98
Re-enter Miranda 108
Freudian influences 110
'The Tempest' on stage and film
since 1900 112
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Contents
The text 124
Ralph Crane's manuscript 126
Editorial practice 130
Cruxes 133
THE TEMPEST 139
Appendix 1: Sources 287
1. Strachey, 'True Reportory' 287
2. Montaigne, 'Of the Caniballes' 303
Appendix 2: Appropriations 315
1. Browning, 'Caliban upon Setebos' 315
2. Rodo, Ariel 325
3. Mannoni, Prospero and Caliban 331
Abbreviations and references 343
Abbreviations used in notes 343
Editions of Shakespeare collated 344
Other works 346
Index 359
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