The tempest : with new and updated critical essays and a revised bibliography
INITIAL_TITLE_SRCH:
The tempest : with new and updated critical essays and a revised bibliography
AUTHOR:
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
Langbaum, Robert Woodrow, 1924-
ISBN:
9780451527127
EDITION:
2nd revised edition.
PUBLICATION_INFO:
New York, New York : Signet Classics, 1998.
PHYSICAL_DESC:
lxxvii, 205 p. ; 18 cm
SERIES:
The Signet Classics Shakespeare series
Signet Classics Shakespeare series.
SERIES_TITLE:
The Signet Classics Shakespeare series
Signet Classics Shakespeare series.
ABSTRACT:
Prospero, wise Duke of Milan, has been deposed by Antonio, his wicked brother, and exiled with his daughter Miranda to a mysterious island. But Prospero possesses supernatural powers. This edition includes Shakespeare's sources for the play, dramatic criticism from past and present, and a comprehensive stage and screen history of notable actors, directors, and productions of the play.
Shakespeare: an overview -- Introduction -- The tempest -- The sources of The tempest -- Commentaries from The lectures of 1811-1812, Lecture IX / Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- The tragic pattern: The tempest / E.M.W. Tillyard -- The tempest and the ancient comic tradition / Bernard Knox -- The Miranda trap: sexism and racism in Shakespeare's Tempest / Lorie Jerrell Leininger -- The use of salutary anxiety in The tempest / Stephen Greenblatt -- The tempest on stage and screen / Sylvan Barnet.
TITLE_SUBJECT:
SUBJECT:
| Shipwreck victims -- Drama. |
| Fathers and daughters -- Drama. |
| Castaways -- Drama. |
| Magicians -- Drama. |
| Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Tempest. |
| Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Criticism and interpretation. |
| Prospero (Fictitious character) -- Drama. |
| Tempest (Shakespeare, William) |
BIBSUMMARY:
Prospero, wise Duke of Milan, has been deposed by Antonio, his wicked brother, and exiled with his daughter Miranda to a mysterious island. But Prospero possesses supernatural powers. This edition includes Shakespeare's sources for the play, dramatic criticism from past and present, and a comprehensive stage and screen history of notable actors, directors, and productions of the play.
Shakespeare: an overview -- Introduction -- The tempest -- The sources of The tempest -- Commentaries from The lectures of 1811-1812, Lecture IX / Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- The tragic pattern: The tempest / E.M.W. Tillyard -- The tempest and the ancient comic tradition / Bernard Knox -- The Miranda trap: sexism and racism in Shakespeare's Tempest / Lorie Jerrell Leininger -- The use of salutary anxiety in The tempest / Stephen Greenblatt -- The tempest on stage and screen / Sylvan Barnet.