The Tempest presents some of Shakespeare's most insightful meditations on the cycle of life--ending and beginning, death and regeneration, bondage and freedom. This Norton Critical Edition is based on the First Folio (1623) and is accompanied by detailed explanatory annotations.

"Sources and Contexts" offers a rich collection of texts by Ovid,Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Gaspar Gil Polo, Michel de Montaigne, and William Strachey, among others, centered on the play's major themes--magic and witchcraft, politics and religion,geography and travel.

Preface

The Text of The Tempest

  The Tempest

  A Note on the Text

Sources and Contexts

MAGIC AND WITCHCRAFT

 Ovid·[Medea]

 Giovanni Pico della Mirandola·Oration on the

    Dignity of Man

 Anonymous·[Friar Bacon's Magical Exploits]

 William Biddulph·[An English Conjuror on the

    High Seas]

 Reginald Scott·[How to Enclose a Spirit]

POLITICS AND RELIGION

 Isaiah XXIX

 Samuel Purchas·Virginia's Verger

 Gabriel Naude·[Master Strokes of State]

GEOGRAPHY AND TRAVEL

 Anonymous·Primaleon of Greece

 Gaspar Gil Polo·[A Mediterranean Storm]

 Walter Ralegh·A Map of Tunis and Carthage

 Richard Eden·[A Voyage to the Patagonians]

 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]

   ·A Chart of Shakespeare's Dramatic Universe

 Frank Kermode·[Art vs. Nature]

 George Lamming·A Monster, a Child, a Slave

 Barbara A. 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 Blackfriars

 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 Enchanted

    Island

 Thomas Duffett·The Mock-Tempest

 Robert and William Brough·[Raising the Wind]

 Aime Cesaire·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 Mtiller·[Go Ariel]

 Edwin Morgan·Ariel Freed

 Ted Hughes·Setebos

Selected Bibliography