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The Tempest
William Shakespeare
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Description for The Tempest
Paperback. Shakespeare's valedictory play is also one of his most poetical and magical. This 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. Series: The Annotated Shakespeare. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DDS; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 14. Weight in Grams: 176.
The Annotated Shakespeare series enables readers to fully understand and enjoy the plays of the world’s greatest dramatist
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. This fully annotated version of The Tempest makes the play completely accessible to readers in the twenty-first century. Eminent linguist and translator Burton Raffel offers generous help with vocabulary, pronunciation, and prosody and ... Read more
The Annotated Shakespeare series enables readers to fully understand and enjoy the plays of the world’s greatest dramatist
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. This fully annotated version of The Tempest makes the play completely accessible to readers in the twenty-first century. Eminent linguist and translator Burton Raffel offers generous help with vocabulary, pronunciation, and prosody and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Yale University Press
Condition
New
Series
The Annotated Shakespeare
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780300108163
SKU
V9780300108163
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Ref
99-99
About William Shakespeare
Burton Raffel (1928–2015) was Distinguished Professor of Arts and Humanities emeritus and professor of English emeritus at the 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. Harold Bloom (1930–2019) was Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University and Berg Professor ... Read more
Reviews for The Tempest
“Two of the bard’s heavy dramas [Henry the Fourth, Part 1 and The Tempest] join Yale’s wonderful Annotated Shakespeare series. Along with a heavily annotated text, each volume includes a scholarly introduction plus notes on the annotations. All that for the price of a Happy Meal: how can you go wrong?”—Library Journal