Understanding The Tempest
A STUDENT CASEBOOK TO ISSUES, SOURCES, AND HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS
Faith Nostbakken
The Qreenwood Press "Literature in Context" Series Claudia Durst Johnson, Series Editor
Westport, Connecticut • London Contents
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction: For Students and Teachers xv
1. Dramatic Analysis 1
2. Colonialism: The Discoverer and the Discovered 25 FROM: William Strachey, A True Repertory of the Wrack, and Redemption of Sir Thomas Gates, Knight; Upon, and From the Hands of the Bermudas: His Coming to Virginia, and the Estate of that Colony Then, and After, under the Government of the Lord La Warre, 1610, in Samuel Purchas, Purchas His Pilgrimes, Vol. XIX (1625) 31 Sylvester Jourdain, A Discovery of the Barmudas, Otherwise Called the Isle of Devils (1610) 36 A True Declaration of the Estate of the Colony in Virginia, With a Confutation of Such Scandalous Reports as Have Tended to the Disgrace of So Worthy an Enterprise (1610), in Geoffrey Bullough, ed., Narrative and Dramatic Sources of Shakespeare, Vol. VIII (1975) 38 Michel de Montaigne, "Of the Cannibals," in The Essays of Montaigne, Trans. John Florio (1603), 1892 40 x Contents 3. Magic: Religion, Art, and Science 45 FROM: Sir Walter Raleigh, The History of the World (1614) 57 Reginald Scot, The Discovery of Witchcraft (1584), Intro, by Hugh Ross Williamson (1964) 60 King James the First, Demonology (1597), Ed. G. B. Harrison, Elizabethan and Jacobean Quartos (1966) 64 "A John Dee, A Letter, Containing a Most Brief Discourse Apologeticall (1604) 69 Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus (1592), in The Complete Plays, Ed. J. B. Steane (1986) 72 Ben Jonson, The Alchemist (1610), Ed. F. H. Mares (1967) 73
4. Power: Legitimacy and Treachery 79 FROM: A True and Perfect Relation of the Whole Proceeding Against the Late Most Barbarous Traitors, Garnet a Jesuit and His Confederates (1606) 89 King James I, Basilicon Doron (1599), in The Political Works of James I, Ed. Charles Howard Mcllwain (1918) 91 King James VI and I, A Speech to the Lords and Commons of the Parliament at White-hall, March 1609, in The Political Works of James I, Ed. Charles Howard Mcllwain (1918) 93 Elizabeth Read Foster, ed., Proceedings in Parliament (1610), Vol. 2(1966) 96 Samuel Rawson Gardiner, Parliamentary Debates in 1610, Edited, from the Notes of a Member of the House of Commons (1862) 97 Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince (1513), Harvard Classics Collection (1910) 98
5. Society: Marriage and the Court 105 FROM: William Shakespeare, Sonnet 18 (c. 1590s), in The Riverside Shakespeare, Ed. G. Blakemore Evans et al. (1974) 114 Thomas Becon, A New Catechism (1564) 115 Contents xi John Dod and Robert Cleaver, A Godly Form of Household Government: For the Ordering of Private Families, According to the Direction of God's Word (1598) 117 "The Magnificent Marriage of the Two Great Princes Frederick Count Palatine, &c. and the Lady Elizabeth," in The Progresses, Processions, and Magnificent Festivities of King James the First, HfrRoyal Consort, Family, and Court, Vol. II (1828) 119 Ben Jonson, The Masque of Blackness (1605), in Court Masques: Jacobean and Caroline Entertainments, Ed. David Lindley(1995) 124
6. Performance and Interpretation 129 FROM: Daniel Wilson, Caliban: The Missing Link (1873) 140 Ralph Berry, On Directing Shakespeare: Interviews with Contemporary Directors (1989) 142 John Goodwin, ed., Peter Hall's Diaries: The Story of a Dramatic Battle (1983) 144 John Gielgud, An Actor and His Time (1979) 145 David L. Hirst, The Tempest: Text and Performance (1984) 146 Roger Warren, Staging Shakespeare's Late Plays (1990) 147 Octave Mannoni, Prospero and Caliban: The Psychology of Colonization (1950), Trans. Pamela Powesland (1964) 148
7. Contemporary Applications 155 FROM: David Blair, Degrees in Violence: Robert Mugabe and the Struggle for Power in Zimbabwe (2002) 161 Martin Meredith, Our Votes, Our Guns: Robert Mugabe and the Tragedy of Zimbabwe (2002) 162 Susan Raghavan, "Zimbabwe's Land-Reform Policies Add to Hunger Crisis" (November 24, 2002) 163 FROM: George Soros, On Globalization (2003) 172 William K. Tabb, Unequal Partners: A Primer on Globalization (2002) 173 xii Contents Naomi Klein, No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies (2000) 174 Amory Starr, Naming the Enemy: Anti-Corporate Movements Confront Globalization (2000) 174 FROM: -\ Larry Kettelkamp, Investigating Psychics: Five Life Histories (1977) 179 Gary L. Blackwood, Secrets of the Unexplained: Paranormal Powers (1999) 179 J.R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit(l937) 183 J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings; Part One: The Fellowship of the Ring (1954-55), 1966 184 J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings; Part Two: The Two Towers (1954-55), 1966 184 J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (1997) 185 Index 189