The Tempest
14 Nov, 2013
820 English and Old English literatures
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Shakespeare’s play The Tempest. Written in around 1610, it is thought to be one of the playwright’s final works and contains some of the most poetic and memorable passages in all his output. It was influenced by accounts of distant lands written by contemporary explorers, and by the complex international politics of the early Jacobean age.
Guests
- Jonathan Bate
16 episodes
Provost of Worcester College, Oxford - Erin Sullivan
2 episodes
Lecturer and Fellow at the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham - Katherine Duncan-Jones
4 episodes
Emeritus Fellow of Somerville College, Oxford
Reading list
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The Tempest
Christine Dymkowski (ed.) (Cambridge University Press, 2000) -
A Year of Shakespeare: Re-living the World Shakespeare Festival
Paul Edmondson, Paul Prescott and Erin Sullivan (eds.) (Arden Shakespeare, 2013) Google Books → -
Tempest in the Caribbean
Jonathan Goldberg (University of Minnesota Press, 2003) Google Books → -
The Tempest and Its Travels
Peter Hulme and William Sherman (Reaktion Books, 2006) Google Books → -
The Tempest
William Shakespeare (David Lindley ed.) (Cambridge University Press, 2013) Google Books → -
Shakespeare's Caliban: A Cultural History
Alden Vaughan and Virginia Vaughan (Cambridge University Press, 1993) Google Books → -
Caliban upon Setebos
Robert Browning -
With a Guitar, To Jane
Percy Bysshe Shelley Google Books →
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