The Tempest
Author: William ShakespeareAdd Your Comments on this Book
Description from Amazon.com: [Editor's Review] Shakespeare's farewell to London, imaginative and enlightening. It is also timeless, often giving rise to contemporary settings in its production.
Prospero's supernatural powers, permeating the action of the play, will take an additional effort at the "willing suspension of disbelief" which we always take to the theater. Yet we are not at all reluctant when, in his epilogue, he boldly asks us to applaud his players.
Each edition includes: Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play, Full explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play; Scene-by-scene plot summaries; A key to famous lines and phrases; An introduction to reading Shakespeare's language; An essay by an outstanding scholar providing a modern perspective on the play; Illustrations from the Folger Shakespeare Library's vast holdings of rare books... [more at Amazon link below]
Description from Amazon.com: [Editor's Review] Shakespeare's farewell to London, imaginative and enlightening. It is also timeless, often giving rise to contemporary settings in its production.
Prospero's supernatural powers, permeating the action of the play, will take an additional effort at the "willing suspension of disbelief" which we always take to the theater. Yet we are not at all reluctant when, in his epilogue, he boldly asks us to applaud his players.
Each edition includes: Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play, Full explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play; Scene-by-scene plot summaries; A key to famous lines and phrases; An introduction to reading Shakespeare's language; An essay by an outstanding scholar providing a modern perspective on the play; Illustrations from the Folger Shakespeare Library's vast holdings of rare books... [more at Amazon link below]
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