A new type of study guide which combines an exploratrion of Shakespeare's language with. specific help for students looking to develop their own critical responses and skills. Brinda Charry offers both a lively critical account of The Tempest and practical ideas on how best to engage with and write about this ever popular play.
A NEW YORK TIMES 2023 SUMMER READMeet the first Indian to set foot on American soil.Among the settlers, slaves, and indentured servants that make the treacherous journey across the Atlantic to the New World in the early 1600s — for some, an exciting opportunity, for others, a brutal abduction — there is also Tony. As a child, his homeland on the Coromandel Coast of India becomes a trading outpost for the English; as an orphaned teenager, he finds himself kidnapped from the streets of London and bound to servitude on a Virginia plantation. But Tony is not giving up on his dreams just yet.Under the rule of a sadistic plantation owner, he forms a tender bond with a young boy who will haunt his nightmares; on an exploration inland alongside a trader and Native Americans, he realises the world is vaster and more mysterious than he could have imagined; and in Jamestown, he finally earns himself a position as a physician’s apprentice, an ambition he has long harboured.The East Indian is a Dickensian-style yarn about family, friendship, and finding oneself in the seeds of a new world.
Part I. Politics and Society -- Men and Women -- Travel and Trade -- Humanism -- The stage -- Authors, Books and Readers -- Genre -- Language and Style -- Part II. The Alchemist -- Arden of Faversham -- Doctor Faustus -- The Duchess of Malfi -- Hamlet -- Henry V -- The Jew of Malta -- The Knight of the Burning Pestle -- The Roaring Girl -- The Shoemaker's Holiday -- The Spanish Tragedy -- The Tempest -- The Tragedy of Mariam -- Volpone.