This volume offers a variety of perspectives on Shakespeare's "The Tempest", including cultural studies, feminism, psychological criticism, political readings, new historicism, post-colonialism, new geography and other approaches. Acknowledgements General Editors' Preface Introduction: Prospero 2000; R.S.White Prospero's Wife; S.Orgel Nymphs and Reapers Heavily Vanish: The Discursive Con-texts of The Tempest; F.Barker & P.Hulme Playhouse-Workhouse; T.Hawkes Subtleties of the Isle: The Tempest; R.Nevo Martial Law in the Land of Cockaigne; S.Greenblatt 'Thought is Free': The Tempest; A.Patterson Seizing the Book; A.Loomba 'Miranda, Where's Your Sister?': Reading Shakespeare's The Tempest; A.Thompson 'What Care These Roarers for the Name of the King?': Language and Utopia in The Tempest; D.Norbrook 'The Open Worlde': The Exotic in Shakespeare; J.Gillies Further Reading Notes on Contributors Index
