The Tempest
Edition: printing (12)
Series: The Signet Classic Shakespeare
Publisher: New American Library
Published: 1964
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Number of pages: 223
Copyright date: 1964
Description: Unique Features Of The Signet Classic Shakespeare The Tempest 

Special Introduction to the play by the editor, Robert Langbaum, University of Virginia 
General discussion of Shakespeare's life, world, and theater by the general editor of the Signet Classic Shakespeare series, Sylvan Barnet, Tufts University 
Substantial note on the sources of THE TEMPEST with extracts from them Dramatic criticism from the past and present: commentaries by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, E. M.W.Tillyard, Reuben A. Brower, Bernard Knox, David William Text and com- mentaries printed in the clearest, most readable type 
Name of each speaker given in full Detailed footnotes at the bottom of each page of the play keyed to the numbered lines of the text 
Textual note 
Extensive bibliography
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Notes: CY994
Table of contents: title: SHAKESPEARE: PREFATORY REMARKS; title: NTRODUCTION; title: The Tempest; title: TEXTUAL NOTE; title: THE SOURCE OF The Tempest; title: William Strachey: from True Repertory of the; title: Wrack; title: Sylvester Jourdain: from A Discovery of the Bar-; title: Council of Virginia: from The True Declaration of; title: the Estate of the Colony in Virginia; title: Michel de Montaigne: from Of the Cannibals; title: Ovid: from Metamorphoses; title: COMMENTARIES; title: Samuel Taylor Coleridge: from The Lectures of; title: 1811-1812, Lecture IX; title: E. M. W. Tillyard: The Tragic Pattern• "The; title: Tempest"; title: Bernard Knox: "The Tempest" and the Ancient; title: Comic Tradition; title: Reuben A. Brower: The Mirror of Analogy: "The; title: Tempest"; title: David William: from "The Tempest" on the Stage; title: SUGGESTED REFERENCES