The Tempest

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.

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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

• 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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