The Tempest and its Travels
William H. Sherman, Peter HulmeThe Tempest is widely seen as Shakespeare's crowning work in the canon of English literature, and this book offers a new map of the island, consisting of an innovative collection of historical, critical and creative readings, juxtaposing texts and images from different periods.
With contributions by Ric Allsopp, Christy Anderson, Crystal Bartolovich, Gordon Brotherston, Jerry Brotton, Raquel Carrió, Merle Collins, Philip Crispin, David Dabydeen, Elizabeth Fowler, John Gillies, Roland Greene, Donna B. Hamilton, Andrew C. Hess, Peter Hulme, Robin Kirkpatrick, Barbara A. Mowat, Lucy Rix, Joseph Roach, Patricia Seed, Martha Nell Smith, Alden T. Vaughan and Marina Warner.
Shakespeare’s The Tempest is a play whose meanings and influence have crossed multiple boundaries in the critical sphere. At once resistant and ever-subject to classification, it has been located in every place and no place and enlisted in support of colonial, anticolonial and apolitical views. In ‘The Tempest’ and its Travels, Peter Hulme and William H. Sherman have commissioned original essays that situate The Tempest in both its original contexts and our own cultural moment.
The Tempest is widely seen as Shakespeare's crowning work in the canon of English literature, and this book offers a new map of the island, consisting of an innovative collection of historical, critical and creative readings, juxtaposing texts and images from different periods.
With contributions by Ric Allsopp, Christy Anderson, Crystal Bartolovich, Gordon Brotherston, Jerry Brotton, Raquel Carrió, Merle Collins, Philip Crispin, David Dabydeen, Elizabeth Fowler, John Gillies, Roland Greene, Donna B. Hamilton, Andrew C. Hess, Peter Hulme, Robin Kirkpatrick, Barbara A. Mowat, Lucy Rix, Joseph Roach, Patricia Seed, Martha Nell Smith, Alden T. Vaughan and Marina Warner.
Shakespeare’s The Tempest is a play whose meanings and influence have crossed multiple boundaries in the critical sphere. At once resistant and ever-subject to classification, it has been located in every place and no place and enlisted in support of colonial, anticolonial and apolitical views. In ‘The Tempest’ and its Travels, Peter Hulme and William H. Sherman have commissioned original essays that situate The Tempest in both its original contexts and our own cultural moment.
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This is an ambitious, bold, and imaginative collection, that truly becomes something greater than even the sum of its impressive parts
'David Scott Kastan, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University, and General Editor of the Arden Shakespeare
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An extraordinarily varied collection that unmoors Shakespeares The Tempest from any critical safe haven and shows instead that from its inception . . . the play has been a perpetual traveller . . . This is a volume that provides more ways of thinking about the play than can be found between the covers of any other single book
'Richard Helgerson, University of California, Santa Barbara
Notes on the Editors and Contributors
Preface
Peter Hulme and William H. Sherman
Prologue: 'After Prospero'
Robin Kirkpatrick
I. Local Knowledge
Introduction
1. 'Baseless Fabric': London as a 'World City'
Crystal Bartolovich
2. 'Knowing I loved my books': Reading The Tempest intertextually
Barbara A. Mowat
3. The Ship Adrift
Elizabeth Fowler
4. Wild Waters: Hydraulics and the Forces of Nature
Christy Anderson
5. Trinculo's Indian: American Natives in Shakespeare's England
Alden T. Vaughan
6. The Enchanted Island: Vicarious Tourism in Restoration Adaptations of The Tempest
Joseph Roach
II. European and Mediterranean Crossroads
Introduction
7. The Italy of The Tempest
Robin Kirkpatrick
8. 'The foul withch' and Her 'freckled whelp': Circean Mutations in the New World
Marina Warner
9. Re-Engineering Virgil: The Tempest and the Printed English Aeneid
Donna B. Hamilton
10. The Mediterranean and Shakespeare's Geopolitical Imagination
Andrew C. Hess
11. Carthage and Tunis, The Tempest and Tapestries
Jerry Brotton
12. Island Logic
Roland Greene
On the World Stage
Césaire's Une tempête at the Gate
Philip Crispin
Otra Tempestad at the Globe
Raquel Carrió
Tempest(s) at Terra Nova Theatre Institute
Ric Allsopp
III. Transatlantic Routes
Introduction
13. The Figure of the New World in The Tempest
John Gillies
14. 'This island's mine': Caliban and Native Soverignty
Patricia Seed
15. Arielismo and Anthropophagy: The Tempest in Latin America
Gordon Brotherston
16. Reading from Elsewhere: George Lamming and the Paradox of Exile
Peter Hulme
17. Maintaining the State of Emergence/y: Aimé Césaire's Une tempête
Lucy Rix
18. H.D.'s 'The Temptest'
Martha Nell Smith
19. Hogarth and the Canecutter
David Dabydeen
Envoy: 'The Word–In the Beginning'
Merle Collins
References
Further Reading
Acknowledgements
Photographic Acknowledgements
Index
Peter Hulme is Professor in Literature at the University of Essex.
William H. Sherman is Associate Professor of English at the University of Maryland.
Peter Hulme is Professor in Literature at the University of Essex.
William H. Sherman is Associate Professor of English at the University of Maryland.