Revisiting The Tempest
The Capacity to Signify
1st Edition
Published on 20. February 2014
XII, 272 pages
978-1-137-33314-8 (ISBN)
Description
Revisiting The Tempest offers a lively reconsideration of how The Tempest encourages interpretation and creative appropriation. It includes a wide range of essays on theoretical and practical criticism focusing on the play's original dramatic context, on its signifying processes and its present-time screen remediation.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Reflowable
Illustrations
XII, 272 p.
File size
1,24 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-137-33314-8 (9781137333148)
DOI
10.1057/9781137333148
Schweitzer Classification
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Persons
Richard Andrews, University of Leeds, UK
Silvia Bigliazzi, Verona University, Italy
Lisanna Calvi, Verona University, Italy
Keir Elam, University of Bologna, Italy
Ewan Fernie, University of Birmingham, UK
Andrew Gurr, University of Reading, UK
Robert Henke, University of Manchester, UK
Roger Holdsworth, University of Manchester, UK
Peter Holland, University of Notre Dame, USA
Kathleen McLuskie, University of Birmingham, UK
Lucia Nigri, University of Salford, UK
Eleonora Oggiano, Verona University, Italy
Alessandro Serpieri, University of Firenze, Italy
Alessandra Squeo, University of Bari, Italy
Content
Notes on the Contributors Introduction; Silvia Bigliazzi and Lisanna Calvi 1. The Tempest as Theatrical Magic; Andrew Gurr 2. The Tempest and Italian Improvised Theatre; Richard Andrews 3. Pastoral Tragicomedy and The Tempest ; Robert Henke 4. The Jonsonian Tempest ; Roger Holdsworth 5. The Labyrinth and the Oracle; Alessandro Serpieri 6. 'Dost thou hear?' On the Rhetoric of Narrative in The Tempest ; Silvia Bigliazzi 7. A Tempestuous Noise: on the Acoustics and Vocalics of Storms; Keir Elam 8. 'Suppos'd to be raised by magic', or The Tempest 'made fit'; Lisanna Calvi 9. 'Lost in Visual Pleasure': Charles Kean's Production of The Tempest ; Lucia Nigri 10. Magical Realism: Raising Storms and Other Quaint Devices; Peter Holland 11. 'This is a most majestic vision': Performing Prospero's Masque on Screen; Eleonora Oggiano 12. Shakespeare's Hypertextual Performances: Remediating The Tempest in Prospero's Books ; Alessandra Squeo 13. 'Abstraction and Allegory': Making The Tempest Mean; Kathleen E. McLuskie Afterword Is there a Tempest Problem?; Ewan Fernie
