The Tempest

by William Shakespeare; Fully annotated, with an Introduction, by Burton Raffel; With an essay by Harold Bloom

• ISBN13: 9780300108163
• ISBN10: 0300108168
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2006-04-20
• Publisher: Yale University Press

Summary

Shakespeare's valedictory play is also one of his most poetical and magical. The story involves the spirit Ariel, the savage Caliban, and Prospero, the banished Duke of Milan, now a wizard living on a remote island who uses his magic to shipwreck a party of ex-compatriots.

Author Biography

Burton Raffel is Distinguished Professor of Arts and Humanities Emeritus and professor of English emeritus, University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Among his many edited and translated publications are Poems and Prose from the Old English, Cligès, Lancelot, Perceval, Erec and Enide, and Yvain, all published by Yale University Press. Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University and Berg Professor of English at New York University, is the author of many books, including The Western Canon, Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human, and Where Shall Wisdom Be Found?

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	p. viii
Series editors' preface	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. xi
Editor's note	p. xii
List of abbreviations	p. xiv
List of productions	p. xix
Introduction	p. 1
List of characters	p. 94
The Tempest and commentary	p. 95
Selected textual variations	p. 336
List of principal players	p. 343
Bibliography	p. 349
Index	p. 360
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