num_pages: 157
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 makse the play completely accessible to readers in the twenty-first century.Eminent 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 and introductory essay, and in a concluding essay, Harold Bloom examines the characters Prospero and Caliban.(back cover)
language: English
title: The Tempest
titlecomplete: The Tempest (The Annotated Shakespeare)
characters: Ferdinand, Antonio, Ariel (Shakespeare), Prospero, Caliban, Sebastian, Trinculo & Stephano, Alonso, Gonzalo, Miranda
genres: Classics, Drama, Theatre, Fantasy, Plays, Read For School, School, Literature, Poetry, Fiction
ratings_count: 204065
places: Unnamed Island, South Pacific Ocean
publisher: Yale University Press