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The Tempest, Paperback / softback Book

The Tempest Paperback / softback

Edited by Burton Raffel

Part of the The Annotated Shakespeare series

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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 provides alternative readings of phrases and lines.

His on-page annotations give readers all the tools they need to comprehend the play and begin to explore its many possible interpretations.

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