Required Reading:

Shakespeare, The Tempest

• Emigrants and Settlers: An Overview (from the "Early 17th Century" unit of Topics Online, an online companion to the Norton Anthology of Literature). The submenus ("Texts and Contexts," "Explorations," etc.) are also worth checking out if you have the time.

Césaire, A Tempest

• Robin D. G. Kelley, "Poetry and the Political Imagination" (a version of the Preface to A Tempest--for those who have not yet procured a copy). For a printable version of this article, click the "Print" icon in the upper right-hand corner.

Recommended Reading:

• Stephen Greenblatt, "Learning to Curse: Aspects of Linguistic Colonialism in the Sixteenth Century."