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The Tempest
The Tempest contains sublime poetry and catchy songs, magic and low comedy, while it tackles important contemporary concerns: education, power politics, the effects of colonization, and technology. In this guide, Alden T. Vaughan and Virginia Mason Vaughan open up new ways into one of Shakespeares most popular, malleable and controversial plays.
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The Tempest : a critical reader
\"The Tempest, the last play Shakespeare wrote without a collaborator, has become a key text in school and university curricula, not simply in early modern literature courses but in postcolonial and history programs as well. One of Shakespeare's most frequently performed plays, The Tempest is also of great interest to a general audience. This volume will outline the play's most important critical issues and suggest new avenues of research in a format accessible to students, teachers, and the general reader\"-- Provided by publisher.
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William Strachey's \True Reportory\ and Shakespeare: A Closer Look at the Evidence
About seven-eighths of that 24,000-word text is an autobiographical account of Strachey's experiences from mid-1609 to mid-1610: the Sea Venture's journey toward Virginia; its encounter with \"a dreadfull storme and hideous\"; the seemingly miraculous crash on Bermuda; the eventful months there, including the construction of two pinnaces; the final leg to Jamestown; the Virginia Colony's deplorable condition; and Virginia's history from late May to mid-July 1610-most notably, Lord De la Warre's arrival, barely in time, to prevent the abandonment of the Colony. There's much more to The Tempest's story line, of course, drawn largely from European sources, old and new, but Strachey offered a basic outline for the play's meteorological and insular elements and for many of its human interactions.75 Despite the affinity between Strachey's letter and Shakespeare's play, it must be emphasized that Bermuda, according to most critics, is not the scene of the play.
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Sir Walter Ralegh's Indian Interpreters, 1584-1618
Vaughan discusses the many overlooked Indians who made voyages to the east from North and South America between 1584 and 1618 under Sir Walter Raleigh. As many as twenty American Natives were in England during those thirty-five years receiving training in the English language and other useful knowledge for US colonialism.
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American Indians Abroad: The Mythical Travels of Mrs. Penobscot and King Hendrick
Why have two portraits ostensibly of American Indians visiting England—a Penobscot woman circa 1605 and a Mohawk sachem circa 1740—been so frequently reprinted with misleading captions, when the woman, though anonymous, was in fact English and the man, often confused with an earlier Mohawk leader, never went abroad? Here are the answers.
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A Voyage to Virginia in 1609
To celebrate its fiftieth anniversary, the University of Virginia Press reissues its first-ever publication. The volume's two accounts of the 1609 wreck of a Jamestown-bound ship offer a gripping sea adventure from the earliest days of American colonization, but the dramatic events' even greater claim to fame is for serving as the inspiration for William Shakespeare's last major work,The Tempest.
William Strachey was one of six hundred passengers sailing to Jamestown as part of the largest expedition yet to Virginia. A mere week from their destination, the fleet's flagship, Sea Venture, met a tropical storm and wrecked on one of the islands of Bermuda. Strachey's story might have ended there, but the castaways survived on the tropical island for eleven months and-in an act of almost incomprehensible resourcefulness-used local cedarwood, along with the wreckage of their own ship, to construct two seaworthy boats and continue successfully on their voyage.
Strachey's frankness about his fellow travelers, mutinies on the island, and the wretched condition in which they finally found Jamestown kept his document from being officially published initially, but it circulated privately in London, where one of its early readers was William Shakespeare. The second narrative in this volume, by Strachey's shipmate Silvester Jourdain, covers the same episode but includes many fascinating details that Strachey's does not, including some that made their way intoThe Tempest.
Presented with modern spelling and punctuation, this great maritime drama and unforgettable firsthand look at the profound struggle to colonize America offers today's reader the raw material that inspired Shakespeare's masterpiece.
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Namontack's Itinerant Life and Mysterious Death: Sources and Speculations
Supposing for the moment that Namontack was in London in the first half of 1609, his overseas assignment was surely the same as the year before: to see King James and his country and bring home a faithful, but more detailed, report as soon as Sea Venture, flag ship of the \"third supply,\" reached Virginia with the colony's leaders and the two Powhatans on board.14 The fleet's momentous encounter with an Atlantic hurricane, Sea Venture's dramatic shipwreck off the Bermuda coast, the \"miraculous\" survival of all passengers and crew, and most of the castaways' unexpected arrival in Virginia ten months later has often been related. (Van Meteren's earlier editions appeared before the Bermuda episode was known or the Virginia Colony's survival assured and therefore said very little about England's overseas ventures.) Readers dependent on English-language publications would not encounter a written version of the Bermuda murder until Smith's history appeared ten years after van Meteren's, although oral accounts must have circulated after Gates, Newport, and other survivors reached London in September 1610.19 A third source for the presence of Namontack and Matchumps on Bermuda appeared a year after the publication of Smith's book, when Samuel Purchas reprinted part of a Virginia clergyman's report that in Tsenacomoco, \"Murther is scarsly heard of. Had Namontacks life not been cut short in early 1610, he might have continued for many years to be an essential go-between with Powhatan and his successors, and lessened English-Indian hostilities, especially in the tense years before the truce of 1614 and again after Pocahontas's death in 1617. [...]Powhatan's own death in 1618, Namontack would likely have been an ameliorative voice in his councils as well as with Virginia governors from Thomas Gates to George Yeardley (another Sea Venture survivor). According to a Virginia colonist in 1689 (Rev. John Clayton?), \"They don't punish any crimes with death, only they pay so much money.
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