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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 rich and imaginative anthology will be essential reading.""-- ""Shakespeare Quarterly"" ""A valuable addition to the burgeoning literature taking a postmodern interest in this Shakespeare play. . . . The essays are engaging and free of murky theoretical discourse. . . . Numerous black-and-white photographs and illustrations help present The Tempest as both cultural artifact and literary creation.""-- ""Choice"""

The Tempest and its Travels is a unique collection of assays; the language, reference points and layout all suggest an academic intent and are likely to deter the casual browser. Most readers will instantly know whether they are likely to enjoy it or not. Two types of essay are dominant. The first proposes a thesis, suggesting sources and intertexts and providing contemporary setting for Shakespeare's production, the second a reportage of borrowings and interpretations of the play. In this way the essays look both forwards and backwards in time from the production of the text. The third dimession in which the essays travel with the test is through geographic and political/cultural boundaries. For the reader looking for greater understanding of the play, to expand on their own reactions to reading the text, or to contextualize a performance, many starting points are offered, though some inevitably degenerate into dry recitals of academic references. For those looking to bolster their undergraduate assignments there are references to Freud, Kristeva, Sartre et al and suggestions of structural parallels with Greek classical texts. Perhaps the most interesting reading for those without academmic intent are the examples of artistic interpretations through which one can directly observe how The Tempset's universal themes have been co-opted to express and illuminate specific human experience and emotion. The formula and contents of this collection are very modern in approach and offer the academically inclinecd some interesting expansions on the play. Its intention and effect is to raise more questions, so it is not for those looking for simple explanations. Review by BRETT JONES (Kirkus UK)

This rich and imaginative anthology will be essential reading. --Shakespeare Quarterly

A valuable addition to the burgeoning literature taking a postmodern interest in this Shakespeare play. . . . The essays are engaging and free of murky theoretical discourse. . . . Numerous black-and-white photographs and illustrations help present The Tempest as both cultural artifact and literary creation. --Choice This rich and imaginative anthology will be essential reading. --Shakespeare Quarterly

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Peter Hulme is Professor in Literature at the University of Essex. William H. Sherman is Associate Professor of English at the University of Maryland.

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