The Tempest

William Shakespeare

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.

Inhalt

• 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

Autoren-Profil

JF Bernard is Associate Professor of English at Champlain College. Paul Yachnin is Tomlinson Professor of Shakespeare Studies at McGill University.

Bibliografische Informationen

• Titel: The Tempest
• Autor/in: William Shakespeare
• Herausgeber: J.F. Bernard, Paul Yachnin
• Verlag: Broadview Press, 2021
• ISBN: 177048793X, 9781770487932
• Länge: 228 Seiten