This edition of The Tempest provides a clear and authoritative text, edited to the highest standards of scholarship, and includes an in-depth survey of critical approaches to the play.
This edition of The Tempest provides a clear and authoritative text, edited to the highest standards of scholarship, and includes an in-depth survey of critical approaches to the play.
"Shakespeare's Caliban examines The Tempest's "savage and deformed slave" as a fascinating but ambiguous literary creation with a remarkably diverse history in criticism and on stage, in art, poetry, and film, and, during the twentieth century, in sociopolitical writings, especi…
Among Shakespeare's numerous stage characters, probably none has been so variously interpreted as the 'savage and deformed slave' Caliban in The Tempest. For nearly four centuries, widely diverse writers and artists from around the world have found the rebellious monster an intr…
Studies Renaissance occultism and discusses how it influenced the work of popular artists and writers from the Renaissance, including Ben Jonson, Christopher Marlowe, and William Shakespeare.
Literature and film studies students will find plenty of material to support their courses and essay writing on how the film versions provide different readings of the original text. Focussing on numerous film versions, from Percy Stow's 1908 adaptation to Peter Greenaway's Pros…
The tempest: the relationship between text and film
A close study of the relationship between text and film versions of The Tempest.Literature and film studies students will find plenty of material tosupport their courses and essay writing on how the film versionsprovide different readings of the original text.
"The Screen Adaptations Series provides in-depth analysis of how classic literature has been adapted for the screen, showing how alternative readings offer up new interpretations of the original text. Each book, authored by a leading scholar In adaptations studies, collects toge…
"The Screen Adaptations Series provides in-depth analysis of how classic literature has been adapted for the screen, showing how alternative readings offer up new interpretations of the original text. Each book, authored by a leading scholar In adaptations studies, collects toge…