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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 822.33
EAN: 9780192814500
ISBN: 0192814508
Label: Oxford University Press, USA
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 258
Publication Date: December 31, 1987
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Studio: Oxford University Press, USA
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Though written near the end of his career, The Tempest stands first in Shakespeare's First Folio of 1623. Recently redefined by modern criticism as a romance, the play has been read as an escapist fantasy, a political allegory, and a celebratory fiction. Most often, however, The Tempest is interpreted as a summary of Shakespeare's view of his own art of playwriting. In this edition, Stephen Orgel reassesses the evidence for each of these critical speculations, and finds the play to be both more open and more historically determined than traditional views have allowed. The text has been newly edited, and includes a stage history of its production, from the radical revisions of Davenant, Dryden, and Shadwell to the recent stagings of Peter Hall, Jonathan Miller, and Peter Brook.
Book Description:
John Dover Wilson's New Shakespeare, published between 1921 and 1966, became the classic Cambridge edition of Shakespeare's plays and poems until the 1980s. The series, long since out-of-print, is now reissued. Each work contains a lengthy and lively introduction, main text, and substantial notes and glossary.
Average Rating: 
Rating:  -
The "Tempest" shares the distinction -- along with "Love's Labor's Lost" -- of featuring a plot mostly contrived by Shakespeare himself. And it shows. Thank God for Amazon reviews, since it would be suicidal for somebody in the academy to point out all the obvious flaws of this crud. So allow me:
1. We're constantly being reminded about Ariel's upcoming freedom: Was this meant to be the real tension of the play? Because even at final curtain, we never actually see him freed. This ... Read More
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"The Tempest" is treated by many critics as the equivalent of a home run during an aging legend's last turn at bat. It's a solid outing, no doubt, but after years of thinking this one of William Shakespeare's greatest plays, I regard it now more as moving curtain call than homer.
Prospero is a banished nobleman who has learned magic while stranded on a mysterious island. With his faithful daughter Miranda, his obedient fairy servant Ariel, and his disagreeable slave Caliban, Prospero waits ... Read More
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The vast number of critical works which deal wholly or partly with "The Tempest" is testimony to the ultimate impossibility of nailing down it's "meaning" in a neat explanation. After reading the play and the included essays in this Signet edition, I still had the strong feeling that there was much more to be explored.
That is not to say that this edition is sub-par. The introduction by the editor, Robert Langbaum, was the most valuable of the essays to me. It very effectively and concisely ... Read More
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The Tempest is rightly regarded as being one of the Bard's greatest works, containing some of his deepest thoughts on the nature of power and the relationship between rational man as controller of nature, and the animal man always to be at the mercy of the passions both of himself, others, and the world around him. In fact, this play could be thought of as representing Shakespeare's final and definitive statement on topics that he had explored throughout his cannon. But profound as the philosophy is, and ... Read More
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Of course Shakespeare's TEMPEST is an enchanting--and enchanted--play, but my comments here concern the DOVER THRIFT EDITION of the play. Dover is to be commended for making texts such as these affordable for readers on a budget. However, students and teachers alike should note that the Dover edition does not supply line numbers. Students who are considering this text for a class and may have to write about it will not be able to cite specific line numbers as is convention (Act.scene.lines; e.g., 3.1.34 ... Read More
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