The Tempest Hardback
by William Shakespeare
Edited by David Lindley
Part of the The New Cambridge Shakespeare series
Hardback
Description
The Tempest is one of the most suggestive, yet most elusive of all Shakespeare's plays, and has provoked a wide range of critical interpretation.
It is a magical romance, yet deeply and problematically embedded in seventeenth-century debates about authority and power.
David Lindley's Introduction and commentary focus upon contemporary texts, attending to the implications of Prospero's magic, his political and paternal ambitions, and the controversial issue of his 'colonialist' control of Caliban.
The Tempest was also Shakespeare's response to the new opportunities offered by the Blackfriars theatre, and careful attention is given to the play's dramatic form, stage-craft, and use of music and spectacle, to demonstrate its uniquely experimental nature.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:278 pages, 24 b/w illus.
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:01/04/2002
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- ISBN:9780521221597
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