Spine title: The tempest. A collection of critical essays on Shakespeare's play, arranged chronologically in the order of their original publication.

Spine title: The tempest. Includes index.

Miraculous harp / Harry Berger, Jr. -- The eye of the storm / Marjorie Garber -- Learning to curse / Stephen J. Greenblatt -- The tempest as supplement / Julian Patrick -- The Shakespearean "metastance" / James P. Driscoll -- Prospero's wife / Stephen Orgel -- Prospero / Barbara Howard Traister -- This thing of darkness I acknowledge mine / Paul Brown.