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The Tempest (1611)

Resources available through Truxal Library for researching Shakespeare's The Tempest

Recommended Secondary Sources for ENG 101 Students

Female power

Brett, Mike. "'So Perfect and so Peerless': The Role of Miranda in The Tempest." The English Review, vol. 17, no. 1, Sept. 2006. Gale Literature, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A152639818/GLS?u=aacc_ref&sid=bookmark-GLS&xid=f00f91a5.

Kunat, John. "'Play Me False': Rape, Race, and Conquest in The Tempest." Shakespeare Quarterly, vol. 65, no. 3, fall 2014, pp. 307–27. JSTOR, ezproxy.aacc.edu/login?url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/24778584.

Sanchez, Melissa E. "Seduction and Service in The Tempest." Studies in Philology, vol. 105, no. 1, winter 2008, pp. 50–82. JSTOR, ezproxy.aacc.edu/login?url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/20464307.

Slights, Jessica. "Rape and the Romanticization of Shakespeare’s Miranda." Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, vol. 41, no. 2, spring 2001, pp. 357–79. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/1556193.

Wells, Robin Headlam. "'Rarer Action': The Tempest." Shakespeare on Masculinity, Cambridge UP, 2000, pp. 177–206. ProQuest Ebook Central, ebookcentral-proquest-com.ezproxy.aacc.edu/lib/aacc-ebooks/reader.action?docID=144757&ppg=191.

Storytelling

Charry, Brinda. "The Play in Print." The Tempest: Language and Writing. Bloomsbury, 2013, pp. 24–68. EBSCO eBook Collection, login.ezproxy.aacc.edu/login?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=602569&site=ehost-live&scope=site&ebv=EB&ppid=pp_24.

Demaray, John D. "On the Symbolism of The Tempest." The Tempest - William Shakespeare, new ed., edited by Harold Bloom, Chelsea House, 2011, pp. 37–58. Infobase eBooks, ezproxy.aacc.edu/login?url=ebooks.infobase.com/PortalPlaylists.aspx?wID=105206&ISBN=9781438137131.

Erlich, Bruce. "Shakespeare’s Colonial Metaphor: On the Social Function of Theatre in The Tempest." Science & Society, vol. 41, no. 1, spring 1977, pp. 43–65. JSTOR, ezproxy.aacc.edu/login?url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/40401996.

Lamb, Mary Ellen. "Engendering the Narrative Act: Old Wives’ Tales in The Winter’s Tale, Macbeth, and The Tempest." Criticism, vol. 40, no. 4, fall 1998, pp. 529–53. JSTOR, ezproxy.aacc.edu/login?url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/23124315.

Alienation & oppression

Brotton, Jerry. "'This Tunis, Sir, Was Carthage': Contesting Colonialism in The Tempest." Shakespearean Criticism, edited by Michelle Lee, vol. 94, Gale, 2006. Gale Literature, link.gale.com/apps/doc/H1420068255/GLS?u=aacc_ref&sid=bookmark-GLS&xid=87cca0ee. Originally published in Post-Colonial Shakespeares, edited by Ania Loomba and Martin Orkin, Routledge, 1998, pp. 23–42.

Evans, Robert C. "'Had I Plantation of this Isle, My Lord—': Exploration and Colonization in Shakespeare’s The Tempest." Bloom's Literary Themes: Exploration and Colonization, edited by Harold Bloom and Blake Hob, Chelsea House, 2010, pp. 179–90. Infobase eBooks, ebooks.infobase.com/PortalPlaylists.aspx?wID=105206&ISBN=9781438131993.

Lindsay, Tom. "'Which First Was Mine Own King': Caliban and the Politics of Service and Education in The Tempest." Studies in Philology, vol. 113, no. 2, spring 2016, pp. 397–423. JSTOR, ezproxy.aacc.edu/login?url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/43921892.

Yachnin, Paul. "Shakespeare and the Idea of Obedience: Gonzalo in The Tempest." Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature, vol. 24, no. 2, spring 1991, pp. 1–18. JSTOR, ezproxy.aacc.edu/login?url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/24780501.

Language & power

Bailey, Amanda. "Race, Personhood, and the Human in The Tempest." Renaissance Personhood: Materiality, Taxonomy, Process, edited by Kevin Curran, Edinburgh UP, 2020, pp. 138–60. JSTOR, ezproxy.aacc.edu/login?url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctvss3wwb.11.

McAlindon, Tom. "The Discourse of Prayer in The Tempest." Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, vol. 41, no. 2, spring 2001, pp. 335–55. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/1556192.

Takaki, Ronald. "The Tempest in the Wilderness: The Racialization of Savagery." Discovering America, a special issue of The Journal of American History, vol. 79, no. 3, Dec. 1992, pp. 892–912. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/2080792.

Willis, Deborah. "Shakespeare's Tempest and the Discourse of Colonialism." Shakespearean Criticism, edited by Sandra L. Williamson, vol. 13, Gale, 1991. Gale Literature, link-gale-com.ezproxy.aacc.edu/apps/doc/BWBQMB902262563/GLS?u=aacc_ref&sid=bookmark-GLS&xid=b7f39d93.

Wilson, Jeffrey R. "'Savage and Deformed': Stigma as Drama in The Tempest." Medieval & Renaissance Drama in England, vol. 31, 2018, pp. 146–77. JSTOR, ezproxy.aacc.edu/login?url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/26800530.

The Tempest & the New World

Clarke, Barry R. "The Virginia Company’s Role in The Tempest." The Whirlwind of Passion: New Critical Perspectives on William Shakespeare, edited by Petar Penda, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016. ProQuest Ebook Central, ebookcentral-proquest-com.ezproxy.aacc.edu/lib/aacc-ebooks/reader.action?docID=4567505&ppg=77.

Evans, Robert C. "'...With my Nobler Reason ’Gainst my Fury/Do I Take Part': Enslavement and Emancipation in Shakespeare’s The Tempest." Bloom's Literary Themes: Enslavement and Emancipation, edited by Harold Bloom and Blake Hob, Chelsea House, 2010, pp. 209–19 . Infobase eBooks, ezproxy.aacc.edu/login?url=https://ebooks.infobase.com/PortalPlaylists.aspx?wID=105206&ISBN=9781438131993.

Frey, Charles. "The Tempest and the New World." Shakespeare Quarterly, vol. 30, no. 1, winter 1979, pp. 29–41. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/2869659.

Fuchs, Barbara. "Conquering Islands: Contextualizing The Tempest." Shakespeare Quarterly, vol. 48, no. 1, spring 1997, pp. 45–62. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/2871400.

Takaki, Ronald. "The Tempest in the Wilderness: The Racialization of Savagery." Discovering America, a special issue of The Journal of American History, vol. 79, no. 3, Dec. 1992, pp. 892–912. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/2080792.

Other possibly relevant sources

Bowling, Lawrence E. "The Theme of Natural Order in The Tempest." College English, vol. 12, no. 4, Jan. 1951, pp. 203–09. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/372626.

Crosman, Robert. "Shakespeare’s Goodbye to the Stage: The Tempest and Its Afterlife." World's a Stage: Shakespeare and the Dramatic View of Life, Academica Press, 2004, pp. 179–98. ProQuest Ebook Central, ebookcentral-proquest-com.ezproxy.aacc.edu/lib/aacc-ebooks/reader.action?docID=3110342&ppg=193.

Dadabhoy, Ambereen. "'May the Odds Be Ever in Your Favor': Reading Shakespeare’s The Tempest through The Hunger Games." CEA Critic, vol. 79 no. 1, Mar. 2017, p. 71–86. Project MUSE, https://doi.org/10.1353/cea.2017.0004.

Egan, Robert. "This Rough Magic: Perspectives of Art and Morality in The Tempest." Shakespeare Quarterly, vol. 23, no. 2, spring 1972, pp. 171–82. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/2868575.

Hillman, Richard. "The Tempest as Romance and Anti-Romance." University of Toronto Quarterly, vol. 55, no. 2, winter 1985/86, pp. 141–60. Project MUSE, muse-jhu-edu.ezproxy.aacc.edu/article/514907/pdf.

Kirsch, Arthur. "Virtue, Vice, and Compassion in Montaigne and The Tempest." Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, vol. 37, no. 2, spring 1997, pp. 337–52. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/450837.

McCann, Thomas M. "Order Restored: Conventional Family as Model of Governance in Shakespeare’s The Tempest." Critical Insights: Family, edited by John V. Knapp, Salem Press, 2012. Salem Online, online-salempress-com.ezproxy.aacc.edu/articleDetails.do?bookId=117&articleName=CIFamily_0008.

Mentz, Steve. "Fathoming: The Tempest and King Lear." At the Bottom of Shakespeare's Ocean, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2009, pp. 1–18. ProQuest Ebook Central, ebookcentral-proquest-com.ezproxy.aacc.edu/lib/aacc-ebooks/reader.action?docID=601872&ppg=19.

Mowat, Barbara A. "'What’s in a Name?’: Tragicomedy, Romance, or Late Comedy." The Poems, Problem Comedies, Late Plays, edited by Richard Dutton and Jean E. Howard, pp. 129–49. A Companion to Shakespeare's Works, vol. 4 , Blackwell Publishing, 2003. ProQuest Ebook Central, ebookcentral-proquest-com.ezproxy.aacc.edu/lib/aacc-ebooks/reader.action?docID=350887&ppg=143.

Pierce, Robert B. "Understanding The Tempest." New Literary History, vol. 30, no. 2, spring 1999, pp. 373–88. JSTOR, ezproxy.aacc.edu/login?url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/20057542.

Potter, A. M. "Possession, Surrender, and Freedom in The Tempest." Theoria: A Journal of Social and Political Theory, no. 61, Oct. 1983, pp. 37–49. JSTOR, ezproxy.aacc.edu/login?url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/41801712.

Stavreva, Kirilka. "Island Noises: Sound Imprints of the Cultural Encounters in Shakespeare’s The Tempest." Critical Insights: Cultural Encounters, edited by Nicholas Birns, Salem Press, 2012. Salem Online, online-salempress-com.ezproxy.aacc.edu/articleDetails.do?bookId=163&articleName=CICultural_Encounters_0007.

Taylor, David Francis. "The Disenchanted Island: A Political History of The Tempest, 1760-1830." Shakespeare Quarterly, vol. 63, no. 4, winter 2012, pp. 487–517. JSTOR, ezproxy.aacc.edu/login?url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/41819766.