• The First Folio (1623) text, accompanied by the editors’ preface and detailed explanatory annotations.
• A rich collection of source materials by Ovid, Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, King James I, Michel de Montaigne and others centered on the play’s major themes of magic, witchcraft, politics, religion, geography and travel.
• Seventeen wide-ranging scholarly essays, seven of them new to the Second Edition.
• Nineteen rescriptings that speak to The Tempest’s enduring inspiration and provocation for writers from Thomas Heywood and Percy Bysshe Shelley to Aimé Césaire and Ted Hughes.
• A Selected Bibliography.
作者简介
Peter Hulme是埃塞克斯大学的文学教授。他著有《殖民遭遇:1492-1797年的欧洲和加勒比土著》和《征服的残余:加勒比人和他们的访客,1877-1998年》。他与威廉·h·谢尔曼合著了《暴风雨及其旅行》,与蒂姆·杨合著了《剑桥旅行写作伙伴》。威廉·舍曼是约克大学英语及相关文学系早期现代研究教授。他著有《约翰迪:英国文艺复兴时期阅读和写作的政治》一书,并撰写了许多关于文艺复兴文学、旅行写作和这本书的历史的文章。他还和彼得·休姆(Peter Hulme)一起编辑了《暴风雨》(The Tempest)及其旅行,和彼得·霍兰德(Peter Holland)一起编辑了本·琼森(Ben Jonson)的《炼金术士》(The Alchemist)剑桥版。
Peter Hulme is Professor of Literature at the University of Essex. He is the author of Colonial Encounters: Europe and the Native Caribbean, 1492-1797 and Remnants of Conquest: The Caribs and Their Visitors, 1877-1998. He is co-editor, with William H. Sherman, of The Tempest and Its Travels and, with Tim Young, of the Cambridge Companion to Travel Writing. William H. Sherman is Professor of Early Modern Studies in the Department of English and Related Literature at the University of York. He is the author of John Dee: The Politics of Reading and Writing in the English Renaissance and of many articles on Renaissance literature, travel writing, and the history of the book. He has also edited The Tempest and Its Travels with Peter Hulme, and the new Cambridge edition of Ben Jonson's The Alchemist with Peter Holland.
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