The Tempest

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Broadview Press, 09.02.2021 - 228 Seiten

The world that William Shakespeare creates in The Tempest has many features that make it recognizably like our own. There are bad, self-seeking people; brothers fall out with brothers; people who have power are reluctant to give it up; people fall in love; children love their fathers but want to break free. But there is also a fairy-spirit, music in the very air of the island, and a powerful magician who can command the elements and even, he tells us, bring the dead back to life. Combining reality and magic, Shakespeare creates an uncanny but morally coherent world.

This edition features interleaved materials that expand upon allusions in the play and explore elements of its stagecraft. Appendices offer excerpts from Shakespeare’s key sources and inspirations, along with historical materials on exploration and colonialism.

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Acknowledgements
7
Introduction
9
Shakespeares Life
45
Shakespeares Theater
51
A Brief Chronology
57
A Note on the Text
61
The Tempest
65
From Aristotle Politics fourth century BCE
163
From Ovid Metamorphoses 8 CE
168
From Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda The Second Democrate or The Just Causes of the War against the Indians 1547
170
From Bartolomé de las Casas A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies 1552
174
From Michel de Montaigne Of the Cannibals 157880
181
From William Strachey A True Reportory of the Wracke 1610
196
From John Dryden and William Davenant The Tempest or The Enchanted Island 1670
205
Works Cited and Select Bibliography
217
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JF Bernard is Associate Professor of English at Champlain College. Paul Yachnin is Tomlinson Professor of Shakespeare Studies at McGill University.

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