num_pages: 240
description: A storm rages. Prospero and his daughter watch from their desert island as a ship carrying the royal family is wrecked. Miraculously, all on board survive. Plotting, mistaken identities, bewitching love and drunkenness follow as the travelers explore the strange place of spirits and monsters on which they have landed. They soon begin to realize all is as it seems.This book includes a general introduction to Shakespeare's life and the Elizabethan theatre, a separate introduction to The Tempest, a chronology, suggestions for further reading, an essay discussion performance options on both stage and screen, and a commentary.(back cover)
language: English
title: The Tempest
titlecomplete: The Tempest
characters: Ferdinand, Miranda, Alonso, Gonzalo, Prospero, Caliban, Sebastian, Ariel (Shakespeare), Antonio, Trinculo & Stephano
genres: Literature, Classics, School, Drama, Plays, Fiction, Poetry, Read For School, Fantasy, Theatre
ratings_count: 204058
places: Unnamed Island, South Pacific Ocean
publisher: Penguin Books