The Tempest

by Shakespeare, William

• ISBN13: 9780451527127
• ISBN10: 0451527127
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-09-01
• Publisher: Signet Classics

Summary

The Tempest presents some of Shakespeare's most insightful meditations on the cycle of life-ending and beginning, death and regeneration, bondage and freedom.

Table of Contents

Shakespeare: An Overview	p. vii
Biographical Sketch	p. vii
A Note on the Anti-Stratfordians, Especially Baconians and Oxfordians	p. xi
The Shakespeare Canon	p. xv
Shakespeare's English	p. xviii
Shakespeare's Theater	p. xxvi
A Note on the Use of Boy Actors in Female Roles	p. xxxiv
Shakespeare's Dramatic Language: Costumes, Gestures and Silences; Prose and Poetry	p. xxxvi
The Play Text as a Collaboration	p. xliv
Editing Texts	p. l
Shakespeare on the Stage	p. lv
Introduction	p. lxiii
The Tempest	p. l
Textual Note	p. 89
The Sources of The Tempest	p. 91
William Strachey: From True Repertory of the Wrack	p. 93
Sylvester Jourdain: From A Discovery of the Barmudas	p. 99
Council of Virginia: From The True Declaration of the Estate of the Colony in Virginia	p. 100
Michel de Montaigne: From Of the Cannibals	p. 102
Ovid: From Metamorphoses	p. 104
Commentaries
Samuel Taylor Coleridge: From The Lectures of 1811-1812, Lecture IX	p. 106
E.M.W. Tillyard: The Tragic Pattern: The Tempest	p. 119
Bernard Knox: The Tempest and the Ancient Comic Tradition	p. 128
Lorie Jerrell Leininger: The Miranda Trap: Sexism and Racism in Shakespeare's Tempest	p. 146
Stephen Greenblatt: The Use of Salutary Anxiety in The Tempest	p. 156
Sylvan Barnet: The Tempest on Stage and Screen	p. 180
Suggested References	p. 191
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