The Tempest

by Virginia Mason Vaughan

The Tempest - the last play Shakespeare wrote without a collaborator and the first included in the 1623 First Folio - occupies a unique place in cultural history. Probably no play of Shakespeare's has been so subject to appropriations and adaptations, many of which have had a tremendous impact upon the play's subsequent performance history.

From John Dryden and William Davenant's Restoration adaptation to Julie Taymor's 2010 film version, The...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 071907312X
• ISBN13: 9780719073120
• Release Date: August 2011
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 8.5"