The Tempest
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Cambridge, UK
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9780521221597
Copyright date: 2000
Description: The Tempest is one of the most suggestive, yet most elusive of all Shakespeare's plays, and has provoked a wide range of critical interpretation. It is a magical romance, yet deeply and problematically embedded in seventeenth-century debates about authority and power. David Lindley's Introduction and commentary focus upon contemporary texts, attending 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. (publisher's description)
Table of contents: title: List of abbreviations and conventions; title: Introduction; title: Note on the text; title: List of characters; title: The play; title: Textual analysis; title: Appendix 1: The songs; title: Appendix 2: Parallel passages in Virgil and Ovid; title: Appendix 3: 'And other': the casting of The Tempest; title: Select reading list.