CRITICISM

Beauregard, David N. “New Light on Shakespeare's Catholicism: Prospero's Epilogue in The Tempest.” Renascence 49, no. 3 (spring 1997): 159-74.

Finds evidence of a Roman Catholic, rather than Protestant, perspective in the language of The Tempest's epilogue.

Bender, John B. “The Day of The Tempest.” ELH 47, no. 2 (summer 1980): 235-58.

Explores the cultural, literary, and thematic significance of the premiere of The Tempest on the Christian holiday of Hallowmas.

Brooke, Stopford A. “The Tempest.” In On Ten Plays of Shakespeare, pp. 284-311. London: Constable and Company, 1937.

Survey of plot, character, and theme in The Tempest.

Donaldson, Peter S. “Shakespeare in the Age of Post-Mechanical Reproduction: Sexual and Electronic Magic in Prospero's Books.” In Shakespeare, The Movie: Popularizing the Plays on Film, TV, and Video, edited by Lynda E. Boose and Richard Burt, pp. 169-85. London: Routledge, 1997.

Highlights themes of authorial creation and masculine control of female sexuality foregrounded in Prospero's Books, Peter Greenaway's cinematic adaptation of The Tempest.

Ebner, Dean. “The Tempest: Rebellion and the Ideal State.” Shakespeare Quarterly 16, no. 2 (spring 1965): 161-73.

Stresses a combined political and Christian theme in The Tempest involving the disruption of an ideal state by the revolt of evil men.

Gillies, John. “Shakespeare's Virginian Masque.” ELH 53, no. 4 (winter 1986): 673-707.

Studies the masque-like and New World inspired imagery and contexts of The Tempest.

Hoeniger, F. D. “Prospero's Storm and Miracle.” Shakespeare Quarterly 7, no. 1 (winter 1956): 33-8.

Focuses on the figure of Prospero and the theme of reconciliation in The Tempest.

James, Heather. “Dido's Ear: Tragedy and the Politics of Response.” Shakespeare Quarterly 52, no. 3 (fall 2001): 360-82.

Remarks on the significance of allusions to Vergil's Dido in The Tempest and other Shakespearean dramas.

Kott, Jan. “The Tempest, or Repetition” and “The Aeneid and The Tempest.” In The Bottom Translation: Marlowe and Shakespeare and the Carnival Tradition, pp. 69-132. Evanston, III.: Northwestern University Press, 1987.

Illuminates classical references and allusions in The Tempest.

Lamb, Mary Ellen. “Engendering the Narrative Act: Old Wives' Tales in The Winter's Tale, Macbeth, and The Tempest.” Criticism 40, no. 4 (fall 1998): 529-53.

Documents Shakespeare's invocation of female oral tradition in The Tempest and two other dramas.

Leithauser, Brad. Review of The Tempest. Time 146 (20 November 1995): 119.

Admires Patrick Stewart's skillful Prospero, but finds the overall production emotionally flat and simplified.

Magnusson, A. Lynne. “Interruption in The Tempest.” Shakespeare Quarterly 37, no. 1 (spring 1986): 52-65.

Traces patterns of interruption in the plot and language of The Tempest.

McAlindon, Tom. “The Discourse of Prayer in The Tempest.” Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 41, no. 2 (spring 2001): 335-55.

Chronicles curses and pious exclamations in The Tempest.

Morrison, James V. “Shipwreck Encounters: Odyssean Wanderings, The Tempest, and the Post-colonial World.” Classical and Modern Literature 20, no. 4 (fall 2000): 59-90.

Examines literary depictions of shipwreck in Homer's Odyssey and Shakespeare's Tempest as mechanisms of plot and character development.

Mowat, Barbara A. “Prospero's Book.” Shakespeare Quarterly 52, no. 1 (spring 2001): 1-33.

Speculates about Prospero's magic book in The Tempest by drawing evidence from actual conjuring books of the late sixteenth century.

Netto, Jeffrey A. “Sensuous Games: The Iconography of Chess in The Tempest.” In Shakespeare and Intertextuality: The Transition of Cultures Between Italy and England in the Early Modern Period, edited by Michele Marrapodi, pp. 281-91. Rome: Bulzoni Editore, 2000.

Views the chess match between Ferdinand and Miranda in Act V, scene i of The Tempest as a locus of self-reflexivity and intertextuality in the drama.

O'Dair, Sharon. “‘Burn But His Books’: Intellectual Domination in The Tempest.” In Class, Critics, and Shakespeare: Bottom Lines on the Culture Wars, pp. 23-41. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000.

Uses The Tempest as a catalyst for a discussion of intellectual and class divisions in the contemporary United States.

Schneider, Ben Ross, Jr. “‘Are We Being Historical Yet?’: Colonialist Interpretations of Shakespeare's Tempest.” Shakespeare Studies 23 (1995): 120-45.

Argues that new historicist interpretations of The Tempest as a text concerned with colonialism have thus far only inadequately addressed the issue.

Simonds, Peggy Muñoz. “‘My Charms Crack Not’: The Alchemical Structure of The Tempest.” Comparative Drama 31, no. 4 (winter 1997-98): 538-70.

Contends that Prospero was an alchemist in addition to being a magician, and that a symbolic pattern of nine steps analogous to those of an alchemical process can be traced in The Tempest.

Skura, Meredith Anne. “Discourse and the Individual: The Case of Colonialism in The Tempest.” Shakespeare Quarterly 40, no. 1 (spring 1989): 42-69.

New historicist interpretation of The Tempest that analyzes the drama as a text that “enacts” colonialist discourse.

Slights, Jessica. “Rape and the Romanticization of Shakespeare's Miranda.” Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 41, no. 2 (spring 2001): 357-79.

Responds to materialist and poststructuralist interpretations of The Tempest by presenting an analysis of Miranda's character that grants her “moral agency” in the drama.

Smith, Irwin. “Ariel and the Masque in The Tempest.” Shakespeare Quarterly 21, no. 3 (summer 1970): 213-22.

Maintains that the masque scene in contemporary versions of The Tempest did not appear as such in Shakespeare's original version of the play.

Vaughan, Alden T. “Shakespeare's Indian: The Americanization of Caliban.” Shakespeare Quarterly 39, no. 2 (summer 1988): 137-53.

Emphasizes the status of Caliban as a possible representation of early seventeenth-century English perceptions of American natives.

Wells, Robin Headlam. “Blessing Europe: Virgil, Ovid and Seneca in The Tempest.” In Shakespeare and Intertextuality: The Transition of Cultures Between Italy and England in the Early Modern Period, edited by Michele Marrapodi, pp. 69-84. Rome: Bulzoni Editore, 2000.

Elucidates colonist readings of The Tempest through reference to the Aeneid and Seneca's Hercules Furens.

Wymer, Rowland. “The Tempest and the Origins of Britain.” Critical Survey 11, no. 1 (1999): 3-14.

Suggests possible connections between The Tempest and cultural myths related to ancient British history.