Cover -- Copyright and Licence -- Title Page -- A Note on the Author -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Introduction -- Shakespeare, the King's Men and the Court -- The Tempest: Genre, Plot and Structure -- Synopsis -- Genres and modes -- Theatrical language and illusion -- Setting -- Time and the design of The Tempest -- Structure, staging and symbol -- The Magus, the Philosopher Prince, and Prospero's Estate -- Educating Miranda: The Tempest and education -- Caliban -- After the Play: Inconclusions and Anxieties -- Afterlife, and Further Reading -- Appendix: Some Dates -- Hyperlinks -- Intertextuality -- John Dee -- Divine Right -- Virtues of Prince -- King's Two Bodies -- Tyrant/Tyranny -- Trojan Aeneas/ Troy -- Astraea and Apocalypse -- Revenge and the revenge play -- Three Unities -- Fortune -- Emblems -- Truth daughter of Time -- Humanism -- Machiavelli / The Machiavel -- Of the CANNIBALLES -- Conceptual Index.