Incorporates a wide range of approaches to shed light on the text's connections to colonialism and colonial resistance,Provides a 'deep context' approach that uses objects, manuscripts, and rare books to reconstruct the world of the play in Shakespeare's time and introduces readers to new perspectives on the play,Explores The Tempest's Jacobean context while examining how subsequent interpretations have explored gender, resistance, and illusion in new ways,Combines fresh, new scholarship from leading researchers with authoritative texts and comprehensive notes in order to offer readers a complete guide to Shakespeare,Uses the text from the landmark The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition collated from all surviving original versions of Shakespeare's work,Presented in modern spelling and punctuation with accessible critical apparatus to best aid understanding of the plays and poems