The Tempest (Oxford School Shakespeare Series) - Softcover

Shakespeare, William

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0198320310 ISBN 13: 9780198320319

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2003

Synopsis

Critical and historical notes accompany Shakespeare's play about a shipwrecked duke who learns to command the spirits.

About this title

Book Description:

The Tempest is one of Shakespeare's most suggestive, yet most elusive plays. It is a magical romance, yet deeply embedded in seventeenth-century debates about authority and power. This edition attends to the implications of Prospero's magic, his political and paternal ambitions, and the controversial issue of his 'colonialist' control of Caliban. The Tempest was also Shakespeare's response to the new opportunities offered by the Blackfriars theatre, and careful attention is given to the play's dramatic form, stage-craft, and use of music and spectacle, to demonstrate its uniquely experimental nature.

From the Publisher:

This joyous play, the last comedy of Shakespeare's career, sums up his stagecraft with a display of seemingly effortless skill. Prospero, exiled Duke of Milan, living on an enchanted island, has the opportunity to punish and forgive his enemies when he raises a tempest that drives them ashore--as well as to forestall a rebellion, to arrange the meeting of his daughter, Miranda, with an eminently suitable young prince, and, more important, to relinquish his magic powers in recognition of his advancing age. Richly filled with music and magic, romance and comedy, the play's theme of love and reconciliation offers a splendid feast for the senses and the heart.

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0198320310
• ISBN 13: 9780198320319
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 160
• Editor: Gill Roma