The Tempest
Edition: Updated edition, 4th printing
Series: The New Cambridge Shakespeare
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Cambridge, England
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 282
ISBN-13: 9781107021525
Copyright date: 2013
Description: The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emphasis on performance. The series features line-by-line commentaries and textual notes on the plays and poems. Introductions are regularly refreshed with accounts of new critical, stage and screen interpretations. For this second edition of The Tempest, David Lindley has thoroughly revised the Introduction to take account of the latest developments in criticism and performance. He has also added a completely new section on casting in recent productions of the play. The complex questions this new section raises about colonisation, racial and gender stereotypes and the nature of theatrical experience are explored throughout the introduction. Careful attention is paid to dramatic form, stagecraft, and the use of music and spectacle in The Tempest, a play that is widely regarded as one of Shakespeare's most elusive and suggestive. A revised and updated reading list completes the edition.

Updated to reflect the latest criticism of the play and offers a comprehensive performance history including recent productions
Contains a thoroughly revised introduction with four new illustrations and an additional section on casting
Provides an acute commentary and gives awareness of musical elements of the play, especially its masque elements

Source: http://www.cambridge.org/9781107021525
Table of contents: title: List of abbreviations and conventions; title: Preface to the second edition; title: Introduction; title: Note on the text; title: List of characters; title: The play; title: Textual analysis; title: Appendix 1. The songs; title: Appendix 2. Parallel passages from Virgil and Ovid; title: Appendix 3. And others: casting the play; title: Reading list.