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This edition of The Tempest is especially designed for students, with accessible on-page notes and explanatory illustrations, clear background information, and rigorous but accessible scholarly credentials.This edition includes illustrations, preliminary notes, reading lists... Read Full Overview

Read Shakespeare's plays in all their brilliance--and understand what every word means

Edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex.

The Wordsworth Classics' Shakespeare's Series presents a newly-edited sequence of William Shakespeare's works. The textual editing takes... Read Full Overview

Putting romance onstage, The Tempest gives us a magician, Prospero, a former duke of Milan who was displaced by his treacherous brother, Antonio. Prospero is exiled on an island, where his only companions are his daughter, Miranda, the spirit Ariel, and the monster Caliban... Read Full Overview

This critical edition of Shakespeares The Tempest contains the play and 21 additional selections representing major critical and cultural controversies surrounding the work providing you with more insight into the plays critical issues and cultural debates about literature itself... Read Full Overview

The Tempest is one of Shakespeare's most popular plays, both in the classroom and in the theatre, and this revision brings the Arden Third series edition right up-to-date. A completely new section of the introduction discusses new thinking about Shakespeare's sources... Read Full Overview

This Norton Critical Edition includes:

- The First Folio (1623) text, accompanied by the editors' preface and detailed explanatory annotations.
- A rich collection of source materials by Ovid, Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, King James I, Michel de Montaigne,... Read Full Overview

The First Folio edition of The Tempest. This is a reprint, with original spelling and punctuation, of Shakespeare's last play.

Widely regarded as the greatest play right in the English language William Shakespeare wrote 38 plays and 154 sonnets. With works such as Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, A Mid Summer's Night Dream and The Taming of the Shrew his work has made a lasting impression on western culture... Read Full Overview

The acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series, now in a dazzling new series design

Performed variously as escapist fantasy, celebratory fiction, and political allegory, The Tempest is one of the plays in which Shakespeare's genius as a poetic dramatist found its fullest expression. Significantly, it was placed first when published in the First Folio of 1623,... Read Full Overview

Shakespeare everyone can understand--now in new DELUXE editions!

The Annotated Shakespeare series enables readers to fully understand and enjoy the plays of the world's greatest dramatist

Arden Performance Editions are ideal for anyone engaging with a Shakespeare play in performance. With clear facing-page notes giving definitions of words, easily accessible information about key textual variants, lineation, metrical ambiguities and pronunciation, each... Read Full Overview