It’s long past time for this blog to direct readers to the website of Dr. Roger Stritmatter and his colleague Lynne Kositsky — SHAKESPEARESTEMPEST.COM, with links to five articles on various aspects of Tempest sources, chronology, and literary themes, as follows:
From page 1 (after the introductory matter) of the First Folio of Shakespeare plays in 1623 -- with some markings added later
“O Brave New World: The Tempest and Peter Martyr’s De Orbe Novo.” Critical Survey 21:2 (fall 2009), 7-42.
“Pale as Death: The Fictionalizing Influence of Erasmus’ ‘Naufragium’ on the Renaissance Travel Narrative.” Festschrift in Honor of Isabel Holden, fall 2008, Concordia University, 141-151.
“The Spanish Maze and the Date of The Tempest.” The Oxfordian, fall 2007, 1-11.
“Shakespeare and the Voyagers Revisited.” The Review of English Studies, September, 2007 (published online June, 2007), 447-472.
“How Shakespeare Got His Tempest: Another “Just So” Story,” Brief Chronicles I(2009), 205-266, print edition.
There’s much more on their site and I recommend that readers keep in touch with it as they continue to develop this important story.
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