This bibliography of primary and secondary sources has been compiled to aid students in writing Essay 4: Comparative Analysis of The Tempest and an Adaptation. The following list of adaptations of The Tempest, while extensive, is by no means exhaustive. Students are encouraged to seek out primary sources in a range of genres that reimagine the original play. The list of scholarly sources below, compiled by Professor Jayne Lewis, provides a starting place for your research into academic interpretations of the play. This assignment, however, will require that you seek out more specific secondary sources using UCI Libraries finding aids and scholarly databases.
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Materials labelled “on reserve at Langson Library” can be checked out for 2 hours from the Langson Library check-out desk.
| Primary Sources: Drama (Playscripts) | Access |
| Aimé Césaire, A Tempest (1969) | UCI Bookstore |
| John Dryden and William Davenant, The Enchanted Island (1667/70) | Website: archive.org |
| Percy MacKaye, Caliban by the Yellow Sands (1916) | Website: archive.org |
| Ernest Renan, Caliban: A Philosophical Drama Continuing “The Tempest” of William Shakespeare (1878) | Website: Google Books |
| Primary Sources: Drama (Staged Productions) | Access |
| Contemporary Legend Theatre, Taipei, The Tempest [Baofengyu] (2004) | Performance video (available with bilingual subtitles) at MIT Global Shakespeares |
| Mokwha Repertory Company, Korea, The Tempest (2011/15) | Info and performance video available with English subtitles) at MIT Global Shakespeares |
| Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford-upon-Avon, The Tempest (2016) |
Performance video at Digital Theatre+ via the library (Note: If you are having trouble accessing the full video, even on the campus network, try using the link near the bottom of the page, or try clearing your browser’s cookies) Screening 7pm Jan. 31, HIB 100 |
| Primary Sources: Films | Access |
| Jack Bender (director), The Tempest (1998) | Available on YouTube |
| Peter Greenaway (director), Prospero’s Books (1991) | Multimedia Resources Center (MRC) PN1997.P767 2007 |
| Derek Jarman (director), The Tempest (1979) |
Screening 7pm Feb. 12, HG 1070 |
| Paul Mazursky (director), The Tempest (1982) | Available to rent on YouTube |
| Percy Stowe (director), The Tempest (1908) | Available on YouTube |
| Julie Taymor (director), The Tempest (2010) |
YouTube without closed captions, or online for HumCore students with CC Screening 7pm Feb. 15, HIB 100 |
| William A. Wellman (director), Yellow Sky (1948) |
Online for HumCore students Screening 7pm Feb. 6, HG 1070 |
| Fred M. Wilcox (director), Forbidden Planet (1965) |
Online for HumCore students. Continuity script online. Screening 6pm Feb. 11, HG 1070 |
| Primary Sources: Graphic Fiction | Access |
| Neil Gaiman, The Sandman No. 75: The Tempest (1996), available in the reissued collection The Sandman No. 10: The Wake (2012) | On reserve at Langson Library PN6737.G3 S365 1997 |
| Primary Sources: Novels and Short Stories | Access |
| Margaret Atwood, Hagseed (2016) | On reserve at Langson Library PR9199.3.A8 H27 2016 |
| Benjamin Gorman, Digital Storm: A Science Fiction Reimagining of The Tempest (2017) | Not a Pipe Publishing |
| Edgar Allen Poe, “The Masque of the Red Death” (1842) | Website: Poe Museum |
| Jan Siegel, Prospero’s Children (2016) | |
| Marina Warner, Indigo, or Mapping the waters (1992) | On reserve at Langson Library PR6073.A7274 I5 1992b |
| Primary Sources: Poetry | Access |
| W.H. Auden, “The Sea and the Mirror” (1944) | On reserve at Langson Library PR6001.U4 A16 1969 |
| Edward Brathwaite, “Caliban” in The Arrivants (1969) | Download / Website: Proquest Literature |
| Kamau Brathwaite, “Letter Sycorax” in Middle Passages (1992) | Download / On reserve at Langson Library PR9230.9.B68 M54 1992 |
| Robert Browning, “Caliban upon Setebos” (1864) | Website: Poetry Foundation |
| H.D., By Avon River (1949) | On reserve at Langson Library PS3507.O726 B8 2014 |
| Ted Hughes, “Prospero and Sycorax” in New Selected Poems (1995) | On reserve at Langson Library PR6058.U37 A6 1995 |
| Ted Hughes, “Setebos” in Birthday Letters (1998) | Website: Proquest Literature |
| Lemuel Johnson, “Calypso for Caliban” in Highlife for Caliban (1995) | Download |
| Taban Lo Liyong, “Uncle Tom’s Black Humour” (1971) | Download |
| Walter McDonald, Caliban in Blue and Other Poems (1976) | |
| Edwin Morgan, “Ariel Freed” in Virtual and Other Realities (1997) | Website: Proquest Literature |
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Suniti Namjoshi, “From Caliban’s Notebook” and “Snapshots of Caliban” in Because of India (1989) “Snapshots of Caliban” [complete text] in From the Bedside Book of Nightmares (1984) |
Download / On reserve at Langson Library R9499.3.N258 B43 1989
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| Suniti Namjoshi, “Sycorax” in Sycorax: New Fables and Poems (2006) | Download |
| Nkem Nwankwo, “Caliban to Miranda” (1969) | Download |
| Rainer Maria Rilke, “The Spirit Ariel” (1913) | Website: Poetry in Translation |
| Percy Blake Shelley, “With a Guitar. To Jane.” (1822) | Website: Bartleby |
| Safiya Sinclair, Cannibal (2016) | On reserve at Langson Library PS3619.I56847 A6 2016 |
| Theodore Weiss, “Caliban Remembers” (1995) in Collected Poems | On reserve at Langson Library PS3545.E4735 A6 1987 |
| Primary Sources: Television | Location |
| Leon Garfield (director), “The Tempest,” Shakespeare: The Animated Tales (1992) | YouTube |
| Murray Golden (director) “Requiem for Methuselah,” Season 3 Episode 19 of Star Trek: The Original Series (1969) | Available for purchase on YouTube |
| Primary Sources: Music | Access |
| The Decemberists, “The Island,” The Crane Wife (2006) | Various streaming services (including Spotify) |
| Michael Nyman, Noises, Sounds, and Sweet Airs (1991) | Recorded as Michael Nyman and ‘The Tempest’ (2016) and available on various streaming services (including Spotify) and on YouTube |
| Pyotr Tchaikovsky, The Tempest, Symphonic Fantasia after Shakespeare, Opus 18 (1873) | Streaming on Naxos via the library and on various streaming services (including Spotify). Score downloadable online |
| Ralph Vaughan Williams, Full Fathom Five (1951) | Streaming on Naxos via the library and on various streaming services (including Spotify) |
| Primary Sources: Visual Art | Access |
| Charles Buchel, Herbert Beerbohm Tree as Caliban (1904) | “Tempests” section of the Humanities Core Image Gallery |
| Gustave Doré, Caliban (late 1800s) | “Tempests” section of the Humanities Core Image Gallery |
| William Maw Egley, Prospero and Miranda (c. 1850) | “Tempests” section of the Humanities Core Image Gallery |
| Henry Fuseil, The Enchanted Island: Before the Cell of Prospero (1797) | “Tempests” section of the Humanities Core Image Gallery |
| Candice Lin, Sycorax’s Collections (2016) | Featured in Anuradha Vikram’s “Candace Lin’s Garden of Earthly Delights” on KCET |
| Kenny Meadows, Caliban (1846) | “Tempests” section of the Humanities Core Image Gallery |
| John Hamilton Mortimer, Caliban (1775) | “Tempests” section of the Humanities Core Image Gallery |
| David Scott, Ariel and Caliban (1837) | “Tempests” section of the Humanities Core Image Gallery |
| C.W. Sharp, Caliban. Miranda. Prospero. (1875) | “Tempests” section of the Humanities Core Image Gallery |
| John William Waterhouse, Miranda—The Tempest (1916) | “Tempests” section of the Humanities Core Image Gallery |
| Secondary Sources | Access |
| Berger, Harry. “Miraculous Harp: A Reading of Shakespeare’s Tempest.” In Harold Bloom, ed., William Shakespeare’s The Tempest (Chelsea House 1988), 9-42. | On reserve at Langson Library PR2833.W48 1988 |
| Brown, Paul. “‘This Thing of Darkness I Acknowledge Mine’: The Tempest and the Discourse of Colonialism.” In Harold Bloom, ed., William Shakespeare’s The Tempest (Chelsea House 1988), 131-52. | On reserve at Langson Library PR2833.W48 1988 |
| Burnett, Mark Thornton. “‘Strange and Woonderfull Sights’: The Tempest and the Discourse of Monstrosity.” Shakespeare Survey 50 (1997), 187-99. | Shakespeare Survey |
| Federici, Silvia. Caliban and the Witch. (Autonomedia 2004) | On reserve at Langson Library HQ1147.E85 F444 2004 |
| Frey, Charles. “The Tempest and the New World.” Shakespeare Quarterly 30 (1979), 29-41. | JSTOR |
| Garber, Marjorie. “The Eye of the Storm: Structure and Myth in Shakespeare’s Tempest.” In Harold Bloom, ed., William Shakespeare’s The Tempest (Chelsea House 1988), 43-64. | On reserve at Langson Library PR2833.W48 1988 |
| Greenblatt, Stephen J. “Learning to Curse; Linguistic Colonialism in The Tempest.” In Harold Bloom, ed., William Shakespeare’s The Tempest (Chelsea House 1988), 65-8. | On reserve at Langson Library PR2833.W48 1988 |
| Hulme, Peter. “Prospero and Caliban,” in Colonial Encounters: Europe and the Native Caribbean, 1492-1796 (Routledge 1986), 115-34. | Download |
| Johnson, Nora. “Body and Spirit: Stage and Sexuality in The Tempest.” ELH 64 (1997), 683-700. | JSTOR |
| Kahn, Coppelia. “The Providential Tempest and the Shakespearean Family.” In Murray M. Schwartz and Coppelia Kahn, ed., Representing Shakespeare: New Psychoanalytic Essays (Hopkins, 1980), 217-43. | On reserve at Langson Library PR2976.R4 |
| Lamming, George, The Pleasures of Exile (M. Joseph, 1964). | On reserve at Langson Library PR6023.A518 P5 |
| Lupton, Julia Reinhard. “Creature Caliban.” Shakespeare Quarterly 51 (2000), 1-23. | JSTOR |
| Magnusson, A. Lynne. “Interruption in The Tempest.” Shakespeare Quarterly 37 (1986), 52-65. | JSTOR |
| Nixon, Rob. “Caribbean and African Appropriations of The Tempest.” Critical Inquiry 13 (1987), 557-78. | JSTOR |
| Orgel, Stephen. “Prospero’s Wife.” In Harold Bloom, ed., William Shakespeare’s The Tempest (Chelsea House 1988), 99-112. | On reserve at Langson Library PR2833.W48 1988 |
| Solomon, Julie Robin. “Going Places: Absolutism and Movement in Shakespeare’s The Tempest.” Renaissance Drama 22 (1991), 3-45. | JSTOR |
| Traister, Barbara Howard. “Prospero: Master of Self-knowledge.” In Harold Bloom, ed., William Shakespeare’s The Tempest (Chelsea House 1988), 113-30. | On reserve at Langson Library PR2833.W48 1988 |
| Vaughan, Aidan T. and Virginia Mason Vaughan, Shakespeare’s Caliban: A Cultural History (Cambridge, 1991). | On reserve at Langson Library PR2833.V38 1991 |
| Wain, John, The Living World of Shakespeare: A Playgoer’s Guide (St. Martins, 1964). | On reserve at Langson Library PR2976.W26 |
| Zabus, Chantal. Tempests after Shakespeare (Palgrave, 2002). | On reserve at Langson Library PR2878.T4 Z33 2002 |
