The Tempest
- ISBN-10
- 0300108168
- ISBN-13
- 9780300108163
- Series
- The Tempest
- Category
- Drama
- Pages
- 157
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2006-01-01
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Author
- William Shakespeare
Description
Shakespeare's valedictory play is also one of his most poetical and magical. The story involves the spirit Ariel, the savage Caliban, and Prospero, the banished Duke of Milan, now a wizard living on a remote island who uses his magic to shipwreck a party of ex-compatriots.
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