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Prospero, wise Duke of Milan, has been deposed by Antonio, his wicked brother, and exiled with his daughter Miranda to a mysterious island. But Prospero possesses supernatural powers. This edition includes Shakespeare's sources for the play, dramatic criticism from past and present, and a compr...
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Signet Classics,
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| Publisher Address: | New York : |
| Publication Dates: | [1998] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | Second revised edition. |
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The Signet classics Shakespeare
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| Summary: |
Prospero, wise Duke of Milan, has been deposed by Antonio, his wicked brother, and exiled with his daughter Miranda to a mysterious island. But Prospero possesses supernatural powers. This edition includes Shakespeare's sources for the play, dramatic criticism from past and present, and a comprehensive stage and screen history of notable actors, directors, and productions of the play. |
| Item Description: |
"With new and updated critical essays and a revised bibliography." First Signet Classics printing (second revised edition), September 1998. |
| Carrier Form: | lxxvii, 205 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-205). |
| ISBN: |
9780451527127 (paperback) : 0451527127 (paperback) |
| Index Number: | PR2833 |
| CLC: | I561.33 |
| Call Number: | I561.33/S527-130/2nd rev. ed. |
| Contents: | Shakespeare: an overview -- Introduction -- The tempest -- The sources of The tempest -- Commentaries from The lectures of 1811-1812, Lecture IX / Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- The tragic pattern: The tempest / E.M.W. Tillyard -- The tempest and the ancient comic tradition / Bernard Knox -- The Miranda trap: sexism and racism in Shakespeare's Tempest / Lorie Jerrell Leininger -- The use of salutary anxiety in The tempest / Stephen Greenblatt -- The tempest on stage and screen / Sylvan Barnet. |