The Tempest
By: William Shakespeare ; edited by Northrop Frye
Contributors: Frye, Northrop
Edition: Revised Edition, Reprint
Series: The Pelican Shakespeare
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 1986
Place of publication: Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 108
ISBN-13: 9780140714159
Copyright date: 1959, 1970
Subjects: Drama; Fathers and daughters; Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks; Magicians; Castaways
Description: Incorporating thirty-eight volumes of Shakespeare's work, this superb series is distinguished by its skilled and unobtrusive editing, under the scholarly and sensitive supervision of Alfred Harbage.

Great pains have been taken to follow Shakespeare's intentions with regard to the act and scene division and the exact form of speech. The editing has been done from the quarto or folio texts, depending on which is considered more authoritative, and teh ideal has been to reproduce the chosen texts with as few alterations as possible. In order to help the reader and student, the annotations have been arranged on the relevant pages, providing an easily accessible and indispensable source of information.
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Notes: Aust. / CAN / USA