The Tempest

Shakespeare: The Critical Tradition

Brinda Charry

• Publisher: The Arden Shakespeare
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN:
  9781350087071
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781350284142
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Shakespeare Drama
• Index: Literature

The Tempest: Critical Tradition increases our knowledge of how Shakespeare's plays were received and understood by critics, editors and general readers. The volume offers, in separate sections, both critical opinions about the play across the centuries and an evaluation of their positions within and their impact on the reception of the play. The volume features criticism from key literary figures, such as Ben Jonson, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Dryden, John Ruskin and Edward Malone. The chronological arrangement of the text-excerpts engages the readers in a direct and unbiased dialogue, whereas the introduction offers a critical evaluation from a current stance, including modern theories and methods. Thus the volume makes a major contribution to our understanding of the play and of the traditions of Shakespearean criticism surrounding it as they have developed from century to century.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-Title
• Series
• Title
• Contents
• General editor’s preface
• General editors’ preface to the revised series
• Permissions acknowledgements
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• 1 Edmond Malone, date of composition, 1790
• 2 William Taylor, as tragicomedy, 1795
• 3 George Chalmers, New World voyages, 1797
• 4 Edmond Malone, Virginia voyages, 1808
• 5 August Wilhelm Schlegel, as poetry, 1809–11
• 6 Samuel Taylor Coleridge, commentary, 1811–12
• 7 William Hazlitt, commentary, 1817
• 8 Edmond Malone, Caliban as savage, 1821
• 9 Charles Lamb, The Tempest staged, 1822
• 10 Anna Brownell Jameson, on Miranda, 1832
• 11 Samuel Taylor Coleridge, as romantic drama, 1836
• 12 Thomas Campbell, Shakespeare as Prospero, 1838
• 13 Joseph Hunter, the Mediterranean, 1839
• 14 Washington Irving, The Tempest and America, 1840
• 15 Patrick MacDonnell, on Caliban, 1840
• 16 Charles Knight, commentary, 1843
• 17 Hermann Ulrici, the wonderful and the real, 1846
• 18 W. J. Birch, religion, 1848
• 19 John Ruskin, slavery, 1872
• 20 Daniel Wilson, Caliban as the ‘missing link’, 1873
• 21 Edward Dowden, Shakespeare as Prospero, 1875
• 22 A.C. Swinburne, commentary, 1880
• 23 Frances Anne Kemble, commentary, 1882
• 24 Horace Howard Furness, on Caliban, 1895
• 25 George Bernard Shaw, review, 1897
• 26 Rudyard Kipling, commentary, 1898
• 27 Frank Bristol, The Tempest and America, 1898
• 28 Luce Morton, commentary, 1901
• 29 Ashley Thorndike, the influence of Beaumont and Fletcher, 1901
• 30 Everett Edward Hale, commentary, 1903
• 31 W. W. Newell, The Tempest and folk-tale, 1903
• 32 Max Beerbohm, theatre review, 1903
• 33 A. C. Bradley, the transitory nature of things, 1904
• 34 Stopford Brooke, commentary, 1905
• 35 Lytton Strachey, Shakespeare’s final period, 1906
• 36 Henry James, commentary, 1907
• 37 Sidney Lee, The Tempest and America, 1907
• 38 Walter Raleigh, Shakespeare’s last phase, 1907
• 39 John Churton Collins, Christian symbolism, 1908
• 40 F. H. Ristine, tragicomedy, 1910
• 41 Sidney Lee, Caliban as a Native American, 1913
• 42 Rachel Kelsey, New World influences, 1914
• 43 Arthur Quiller-Couch, the first performance, 1917
• 44 Charles Gayley, political ideas, 1917
• 45 John Rea, Erasmus’ influence on the storm scene, 1919
• 46 Ernest Law, the Blackfriars Theatre, 1920
• 47 Collin Still, as allegory, 1921
• 48 José Enrique Rodó, Ariel and Caliban as symbols, 1922
• 49 Richard Noble, songs, 1932
• 50 Enid Welsford, the court masque, 1927
• 51 E. K. Chambers, sources, 1930–1
• 52 Wilson Knight, tempests and music, 1932
• 53 E. M. W. Tillyard, commentary on The Tempest, 1936
• 54 John Middleton Murry, nurture and change, 1936
• 55 F. R. Leavis, reality, 1942
• 56 Theodore Spencer, ordering of characters, 1942
• 57 Wilson Knight, commentary on The Tempest, 1947
• 58 G. E. Bentley, the Blackfriars Theatre, 1948
• 59 James Nosworthy, structure and sources, 1948
• 60 Derek Traversi, artistic and moral purpose, 1949
• 61 Nevill Coghill, Christian myth, 1950
• 62 Frank Kermode, commentary, 1954
• Notes
• Select bibliography
• Index
• Copyright