Revisiting The Tempest offers a lively reconsideration of how The Tempest encourages interpretation and creative appropriation. It includes a wide range of essays on theoretical and practical criticism focusing on the play's original dramatic context, on its signifying processes and its present-time screen remediation.

Notes on the Contributors Introduction; Silvia Bigliazzi and Lisanna Calvi 1. The Tempest as Theatrical Magic; Andrew Gurr 2. The Tempest and Italian Improvised Theatre; Richard Andrews 3. Pastoral Tragicomedy and The Tempest ; Robert Henke 4. The Jonsonian Tempest ; Roger Holdsworth 5. The Labyrinth and the Oracle; Alessandro Serpieri 6. 'Dost thou hear?' On the Rhetoric of Narrative in The Tempest ; Silvia Bigliazzi 7. A Tempestuous Noise: on the Acoustics and Vocalics of Storms; Keir Elam 8. 'Suppos'd to be raised by magic', or The Tempest 'made fit'; Lisanna Calvi 9. 'Lost in Visual Pleasure': Charles Kean's Production of The Tempest ; Lucia Nigri 10. Magical Realism: Raising Storms and Other Quaint Devices; Peter Holland 11. 'This is a most majestic vision': Performing Prospero's Masque on Screen; Eleonora Oggiano 12. Shakespeare's Hypertextual Performances: Remediating The Tempest in Prospero's Books ; Alessandra Squeo 13. 'Abstraction and Allegory': Making The Tempest Mean; Kathleen E. McLuskie Afterword Is there a Tempest Problem?; Ewan Fernie