The Tempest
Contributors: Stephen Orgel (Editor)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1987 June 11
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9780198129172
First sentence: 1.1 On board a ship carrying King Alonso of Naples and his entourage, a boatswain directs the crew to fight a great storm, but the ship appears destined to sink.
Description: Stephen Orgel's wide-ranging introduction examines changing attitudes to 'The Tempest', and reassesses the evidence behind the various readings. He focuses on key characters and their roles and relationships, as well as on the dramatic, historical, and political context, finding the play to be both more open and more historically determined than traditional views have allowed.
Notes: Oxford Shakespeare