Tempest, Sources and Contexts, Criticism, Rewritings and Appropriations (Heftet (myke permer))

Sources and Contexts offers a rich collection of documents on the play 's central themes magic and witchcraft, politics and religion, geography and travel. Writers include Ovid, Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Gabriel Naud, Michel de Montaigne, and William Strachey. Criticism collects eighteen responses to The Tempest, from John Dryden and Samuel Taylor Coleridge to Stephen Orgel and Leah Marcus. Rewritings and Appropriations includes creative reactions to The Tempest, by playwrights, filmmakers, and poets, among them H.D., Peter Greenaway, and Ted Hughes. A Selected Bibliography is also included.