The Tempest: With New Dramatic Criticism and an Updated Bibliography

The Tempest: With New Dramatic Criticism and an Updated Bibliography
ISBN-10
0451521250
ISBN-13
9780451521255
Series
The Tempest
Category
Fathers and daughters
Language
English
Published
1987
Publisher
Signet Classics
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. This extensively annotated version of The Tempest makes the play completely accessible to readers in the twenty-first century." "Linguist and translator Burton Raffel offers generous help with vocabulary, pronunciation, and prosody and provides alternative readings of phrases and lines. His on-page annotations give readers all the tools they need to comprehend the play and begin to explore its many possible interpretations. Raffel provides an introductory essay, and in a concluding essay, Harold Bloom examines the characters Prospero and Caliban."--BOOK JACKET.

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