The Tempest
Edition: Reissue
Series: The New Bantam Shakespeare
Publisher: Bantam Dell
Published: 2006 February
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Number of pages: 116
ISBN-13: 9780553213072
Copyright date: 2006
Description: This joyous play, the last comedy of Shakespeare's career, sums up his stagecraft with a display of seemingly effortless skill.  Prospero, exiled Duke of Milan, living on an enchanted island, has the opportunity to punish and forgive his enemies when he raises a tempest that drives them ashore--as well as to forestall a rebellion, to arrange the meeting of his daughter, Miranda, with an eminently suitable young prince, and, more important, to relinquish his magic powers in recognition of his advancing age.  Richly filled with music and magic, romance and comedy, the play's theme of love and reconciliation offers a splendid feast for the senses and the heart.