The Tempest
By: William Shakespeare ; fully annotated, with an introduction, by Burton Raffel ; with an essay by Harold Bloom.
Contributors: Raffel, Burton.; Bloom, Harold.
Series: The Annotated Shakespeare
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New Haven, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 157
ISBN-13: 9780300108163
Copyright date: 2006
Subjects: Fathers and daughters -- Drama; Political refugees -- Drama; Shipwreck victims -- Drama; Magicians -- Drama; Islands -- Drama; Spirits -- Drama
Genres: Drama.
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.

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Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: CONTENTS; title: About This Book ix; title: Introduction 00; title: Some Essentials of the Shakespearean Stage 00; title: The Tempest 1; title: An Essay by Harold Bloom 00; title: Further Reading 00; title: Finding List 00