The Tempest
By: William Shakespeare ; edited with a theatre commentary by John Russell Brown.
Contributors: Brown, John Russell.
Series: The Applause Shakespeare Library
Publisher: Applause
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 142
ISBN-13: 9781557831828
Copyright date: 1996
Subjects: Fathers and daughters -- Drama; Political refugees -- Drama; Shipwreck victims -- Drama; Magicians -- Drama; Islands -- Drama; Spirits -- Drama
Genres: Drama.
Description: The new Applause editions allow the reader and student to look beyond the scholarly reading text to the more sensuous, more collaborative, more malleable performance text which emerges in conjunction with the commentary and notes. Readers and students are faced with real theatrical choices in each speech as the editors point out the challenges and opportunities to the actor and director at each juncture. Readers will not only discover an enlivened Shakespeare, they will be empowered to rehearse and direct their own productions of the imagination in the process. 

Each note, each gloss, each commentary reflects the stage life of the play with constant reference to the challenge of the text in performance. In the same way that onlya ctors and directors can bring Shakespeare to life on stage, actors and direcots now bring Shakespeare truly to live on the page. 

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Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [145]).
US/UK/CAN edition