The "Tempest"

The purpose of "The Critics Debate" series is to help delineate various critical approaches to specific literary texts and encourage the student to participate as the critics debate. The authors are from a variety of critical schools and have approached their tasks in a flexible manner. Their aim is to help readers come to terms with a variety of criticism and to introduce them to further reading on the subject. In the first part of this book a critical survey is given of some of the major ways in which "The Tempest" has been appraised. In the second part, the authors provide their own appraisals of the text.