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Article: 'The Tempest' and Its Travels.(Book Review)
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- The Modern Language Review
- Article date:
- July 1, 2002
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'The Tempest" and Its Travels. Ed. by PETER HULME and WILLIAM H. SHERMAN. London: Reaktion. 2000. xiv + 319 pp. 14.95 [pounds sterling].
Shakespeare's The Tempest provides the starting-point for this collection of nineteen specially commissioned essays, many of which, as the title suggests, have other destinations in mind. As Peter Hulme and William H. Sherman explain in their preface, the volume is concerned with 'the play's engagement with the world of its time', in terms both of its origin and of its reproduction. The book's three main sections focus on 'Local Knowledge', the 'historical circumstances within which The Tempest was written and performed in ...