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Available
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Publication
W. W. Norton & Company (First Edition)
Pages
355
Description
Presents William Shakespeare's "The Tempest" and includes excerpts from its sources, eighteen works of criticism by writers ranging from John Dryden to Barbara Fuchs, and seventeen works based on the play by such authors as Percy Shelley and Ted Hughes.
Description
An authoritative text, sources and contexts, criticism, rewritings and appropriations. Table of Contents:
Text of the tempest: Tempest; Note on the text --
Sources and contexts: Magic and witchcraft, [Ovid] / Medea, Oration on the dignity of man / Giovanni Pico della Mirandola; Politics and religion, Isaiah XXIX, [Master strokes of state] / Gabriel Naude; Geography and travel, Primaleon of Greece / Anonymous, [Atlantic storm] / Capt. Wyatt, Seaman's dictionary / Sir Henry Mainwaring --
Criticism: [Character of Caliban] / John Dryden; [Some notes on The Tempest] / Fanny Kemble; Chart of Shakespeare's dramatic universe; Prospero's wife / Stephen Orgel; Blue-eyed witch / Leah Marcus --
Rewritings and appropriations: Drama and film, Sea voyage / John Fletcher and Philip Massinger, Mock-Tempest / Thomas Duffett, Prospero's books / Peter Greenaway; Poems, With a guitar, To Jane / Percy Bysshe Shelley, Spirit Ariel / Rainer Maria Rilke, Setebos / Ted Hughes.
Text of the tempest: Tempest; Note on the text --
Sources and contexts: Magic and witchcraft, [Ovid] / Medea, Oration on the dignity of man / Giovanni Pico della Mirandola; Politics and religion, Isaiah XXIX, [Master strokes of state] / Gabriel Naude; Geography and travel, Primaleon of Greece / Anonymous, [Atlantic storm] / Capt. Wyatt, Seaman's dictionary / Sir Henry Mainwaring --
Criticism: [Character of Caliban] / John Dryden; [Some notes on The Tempest] / Fanny Kemble; Chart of Shakespeare's dramatic universe; Prospero's wife / Stephen Orgel; Blue-eyed witch / Leah Marcus --
Rewritings and appropriations: Drama and film, Sea voyage / John Fletcher and Philip Massinger, Mock-Tempest / Thomas Duffett, Prospero's books / Peter Greenaway; Poems, With a guitar, To Jane / Percy Bysshe Shelley, Spirit Ariel / Rainer Maria Rilke, Setebos / Ted Hughes.
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Language
Original language
English
Physical description
355 p.; 8.4 inches
ISBN
0393978192 / 9780393978193
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FIC A2 Sha