The Tempest
This joyous play, the last comedy of Shakespeare's career, sums up his stagecraft with a display of seemingly effortless skill. Prospero, exiled Duke of Milan, living on an enchanted island, has the opportunity to punish and forgive his enemies when he raises a tempest that drives them ashore--as well as to forestall a rebellion, to arrange the meeting of his daughter, Miranda, with an eminently suitable young prince, and, more important, to relinquish his magic powers in recognition of his advancing age. Richly filled with music and magic, romance and comedy, the play's theme of love and reconciliation offers a splendid feast for the senses and the heart.
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The Tempest
This joyous play, the last comedy of Shakespeare's career, sums up his stagecraft with a display of seemingly effortless skill. Prospero, exiled Duke of Milan, living on an enchanted island, has the opportunity to punish and forgive his enemies when he raises a tempest that drives them ashore--as well as to forestall a rebellion, to arrange the meeting of his daughter, Miranda, with an eminently suitable young prince, and, more important, to relinquish his magic powers in recognition of his advancing age. Richly filled with music and magic, romance and comedy, the play's theme of love and reconciliation offers a splendid feast for the senses and the heart.
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The Tempest

The Tempest

by William Shakespeare
The Tempest

The Tempest

by William Shakespeare

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This joyous play, the last comedy of Shakespeare's career, sums up his stagecraft with a display of seemingly effortless skill. Prospero, exiled Duke of Milan, living on an enchanted island, has the opportunity to punish and forgive his enemies when he raises a tempest that drives them ashore--as well as to forestall a rebellion, to arrange the meeting of his daughter, Miranda, with an eminently suitable young prince, and, more important, to relinquish his magic powers in recognition of his advancing age. Richly filled with music and magic, romance and comedy, the play's theme of love and reconciliation offers a splendid feast for the senses and the heart.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781636376158
Publisher: Bibliotech Press
Publication date: 11/11/2022
Pages: 124
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.44(d)
Age Range: 3 - 7 Years

About the Author

About The Author
Julie Taymor is is an award-winning director of theater, opera, and film. The Tempest is her fourth feature film. She also directed Titus, Frida, and Across the Universe. Her stage adapation of The Lion King has been presented in 13 countries. Her production of The Magic Flute has become a modern classic and is in the repertory of the Metropolitan Opera.


Jonathan Bate is well known as a critic, biographer, broadcaster, and Shakespeare scholar. Professor of English Literature at the University of Warwick, he is the author of many books, including The Genius of Shakespeare.

Date of Death:

2018

Place of Birth:

Stratford-upon-Avon, United Kingdom

Place of Death:

Stratford-upon-Avon, United Kingdom

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Table of Contents

The Tempest - William Shakespeare - Edited by Robert Langbaum Samuel Taylor Coleridge: From The Lectures of 1811- 1812, Lecture IX
E. M. W. Tillyard: The Tragic Pattern: 'The Tempest'
Bernard Knox: 'The Tempest' and the Ancient Comic Tradition
Lorie Jerrell Leininger: The Miranda Trap: Sexism and Racism in Shakespeare's 'Tempest'
Sylvan Barnet: 'The Tempest' on the Stage

NEWLY ADDED ESSAY:
Stephen Greenblatt: The Use of Salutary Anxiety in 'The Tempest'

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