This book challenges a longstanding and deeply ingrained belief in Shakespearean studies that The Tempest - long supposed to be Shakespeare's last play - was not written until 1611. In the course of investigating this proposition, which has rarely been questioned and has received the critical inquiry it deserves, a number of subsidiary and closely related interpretative puzzles have come sharply into focus. These include the play's sources of New World imagery; its festival symbolism and structure; its relationship to William Strachey's True Reportory account of the 1609 Bermuda wreck of the Sea Venture (not published until 1625) - and the tangled history of how and why scholars have for so long misunderstood these matters.

When some preliminary elements of the case were published in leading Shakespearean journals (starting in 2007), the sometimes intemperate responses they received became part of the critical history, and some scholars supposed that we had been answered. Our reply to these criticisms is here given in full.

About the Author
Roger A. Stritmatter is an associate professor of Humanities at Coppin State University, USA, and general editor of Brief Chronicles: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Authorship Studies. He has published on Shakespearean topics in a range of academic journals, including Notes and Queries, The Shakespeare Yearbook, Review of English Studies, Critical Survey, The Tennessee Law Review, and the Scandinavian Psychoanalytic Review. He lives in Baltimore, Maryland.

Lynne Kositsky/strong> is an award-winning poet, young adult novelist and independent researcher living in Vineland, Ontario.

Reviews
"terrific...well-designed and a pleasure to read"-The Oxfordian: Annual Journal of the Shakespeare Oxford Society.



Book Information
ISBN 9780786471041
Author Roger A. Stritmatter
Format Paperback
Page Count 272
Imprint McFarland & Co Inc
Publisher McFarland & Co Inc
Weight(grams) 380g