By Shakespeare, William; Vaughan, Alden T.; Vaughan, Virginia Mason
ISBN-10: 1472518411
ISBN-13: 9781472518415
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Extra resources for The Tempest: A Critical Reader
Example text
Allegorical readings Edward Dowden’s survey of Shakespeare’s plays as biographical allegory remained influential well into the twentieth century, especially in regard to The Tempest. Writing in 1932, John Dover Wilson contended that a change came over Shakespeare around 1609, resulting in a shift from tragedy to romance. He relates the last plays to Shakespeare’s retirement, suggesting that Prospero is an extension of Lear, a wronged old man, but in The Tempest he has found his happiness and his Cordelia in Miranda, much as Shakespeare may have found it in times spent with daughter Judith in Stratford.
They also overlap from time to time in their uses of Tempest-appropriate materials, for example quotations from early commentators on The Tempest such as Ben Jonson’s quips about Shakespeare’s play, or references to major productions or films like The Forbidden Planet, to elucidate their arguments. Rather than concede to the first user in our sequence of chapters a monopoly on such materials and deny to subsequent authors the same freedom of choice, the volume editors have let each essayist employ whatever literary and historical materials most effectively promote the argument at hand – occasional repetition notwithstanding.
The only contemporary judgement by Shakespeare’s fellow dramatist Ben Jonson was ambiguous. In the Induction to Bartholomew Fair (1614), Jonson contrasted his play with Shakespeare’s Tempest: ‘If there bee never a Servant-monster i’the Fayre; who can helpe it? He sayes; nor a nest of Antiques? 2 Jonson’s early critique of the ‘servant-monster’ Caliban begins what became a favourite eighteenth-century pastime, speculation about what kind of ‘monster’ Caliban was meant to be. With the closing of London’s theatres in 1642, opportunities to see The Tempest on stage temporarily ceased, but the text was available to readers in the First (1623) and Second Folio editions of Shakespeare’s collected plays (1632), where it occupied first place.