The TempestSimon and Schuster, 23.08.2011 - 272 Seiten Putting romance onstage, The Tempest gives us a magician, Prospero, a former duke of Milan who was displaced by his treacherous brother, Antonio. Prospero is exiled on an island, where his only companions are his daughter, Miranda, the spirit Ariel, and the monster Caliban. When his enemies are among those caught in a storm near the island, Prospero turns his power upon them through Ariel and other spirits. The characters exceed the roles of villains and heroes. Prospero seems heroic, yet he enslaves Caliban and has an appetite for revenge. Caliban seems to be a monster for attacking Miranda, but appears heroic in resisting Prospero, evoking the period of colonialism during which the play was written. Miranda's engagement to Ferdinand, the Prince of Naples and a member of the shipwrecked party, helps resolve the drama. The authoritative edition of The Tempest from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for students and general readers, is now available as an eBook. Features include: · The exact text of the printed book for easy cross-reference · Hundreds of hypertext links for instant navigation · Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play · Full explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play · Scene-by-scene plot summaries · A key to famous lines and phrases · An introduction to reading Shakespeare’s language · Illustrations from the Folger Shakespeare Library’s vast holdings of rare books · An essay by a leading Shakespeare scholar providing a modern perspective on the play |
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... past, the passion for Shakespeare continues to grow. No author speaks more powerfully to the human condition, in all its variety, than this actor/playwright from a minor sixteenth-century English village. Over the years vast changes ...
... past, the passion for Shakespeare continues to grow. No author speaks more powerfully to the human condition, in all its variety, than this actor/playwright from a minor sixteenth-century English village. Over the years vast changes ...
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... past centuries but because these are words that Shakespeare is using to build a dramatic world that has its own space, time, and history. In the opening scenes of The Tempest, for example, Shakespeare quickly creates the world of the ...
... past centuries but because these are words that Shakespeare is using to build a dramatic world that has its own space, time, and history. In the opening scenes of The Tempest, for example, Shakespeare quickly creates the world of the ...
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... past as if it were a dark abyss. When he describes his treacherous brother as “The ivy which had hid my princely trunk / And sucked my verdure out on 't” (1.2.105–6), he again uses a metaphor; here, Prospero is a tree and Antonio is ...
... past as if it were a dark abyss. When he describes his treacherous brother as “The ivy which had hid my princely trunk / And sucked my verdure out on 't” (1.2.105–6), he again uses a metaphor; here, Prospero is a tree and Antonio is ...
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... with Shakespeare's language so that the words, the sentences, the wordplay, and the implied stage action all become clear—as readers for the past four centuries have disThe Tempest xxiv covered. It may be more pleasurable to attend.
... with Shakespeare's language so that the words, the sentences, the wordplay, and the implied stage action all become clear—as readers for the past four centuries have disThe Tempest xxiv covered. It may be more pleasurable to attend.
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... past two centuries we print metrically linked lines in the following way: PROSPERO But are they, Ariel, safe? ARIEL Not a hair perished. (1.2.257–58) However, when there are a number of short verse lines that can be linked in more than ...
... past two centuries we print metrically linked lines in the following way: PROSPERO But are they, Ariel, safe? ARIEL Not a hair perished. (1.2.257–58) However, when there are a number of short verse lines that can be linked in more than ...
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