List of Illustrations
Preface
A Note on the Text

The Text of The Tempest

The Tempest

Sources and Contexts

MAGIC AND WITCHCRAFT

Ovid—[Medea]

Giovanni Pico della Mirandola—Oration on the Dignity of Man

Anonymous—[Frair Bacon’s Magical Exploits]

William Biddulph—[An English Conjuror on the High Seas]

Reginald Scott—[How to Enclose a Spirit]

POLITICS AND RELIGION

Anonymous—Isaiah XXIX

Samuel Purchas—Virginia’s Verger

Gabriel Naudé—[Master Strokes of State]

GEOGRAPHY AND TRAVEL

Anonymous—Primaleon of Greece

Gaspar Gil Polo—[A Mediterranean Storm]

Richard Eden—[A Voyage to the Patagonias]

Capt. Wyatt—[An Atlantic Storm]

Michel de Montaigne—[The Cannibals of Brazil]

William Strachey—[Storms and Strife in Bermuda]

Sir Henry Mainwaring—The Seaman’s Dictionary

Criticism

John Dryden—The Character of Caliban

Nicholas Rowe—[The Magic of The Tempest]

Samuel Taylor Coleridge—Notes on The Tempest

Ludwig Tieck—Shakespeare’s Treatment of the Marvellous

Fanny Kemble—Some Notes on The Tempest

Henry James—Surrendering to The Tempest

Lytton Strachey—Shakespeare’s Final Period

G. Wilson Knight—[Prospero’s Lonely Magic]

Frank Kermode—[Art vs. Nature]

George Lamming—A Monster, a Child, a Slave

Barbara Mowat—Prospero, Agrippa, and Hocus Pocus

David Lindley—Music, Masque, and Meaning in The Tempest

Stephen Orgel—Prospero’s Wife

John Gillies—Shakespeare’s Virginian Masque

Peter Hulme—Prospero and Caliban

Andrew Gurr—The Tempest’s Tempest at Blackfrairs

Barbara Fuchs—Conquering Islands: Contextualizing The Tempest

Leah Marcus—The Blue-Eyed Witch

Rewritings and Appropriations

DRAMA AND FILM

John Fletcher and Philip Massinger—The Sea Voyage

Thomas Heywood—The English Traveller

John Dryden and William Davenant—The Enchanged Island

Thomas Duffett—The Mock-Tempest

Robert and William Brough—[Raising the Wind]

Aimé Césaire—A Tempest

Peter Greenaway—Prospero’s Books

POEMS

Percy Bysshe Shelley—With a Guitar: To Jane

Robert Browning—Caliban upon Setebos; or, Natural Theology in the Island

Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis—At the Top

Rainer Maria Rilke—The Spirit Ariel

H. D.—By Avon River

Suniti Namjoshi—Snapshots of Caliban

Lemuel Johnson—Calypso for Caliban

Heiner Müller—[Go Ariel]

Edwin Morgan—Ariel Freed

Ted Hughes—Setebos

Selected Bibliography