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The authoritative edition of The Tempest from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for both students and general readers. Putting romance onstage, The Tempest gives us a magician, Prospero, a former duke of Milan who was displaced by... Read Full Overview

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Putting romance onstage, The Tempest gives us a magician, Prospero, a former duke of Milan who was displaced by his treacherous brother, Antonio. Prospero is exiled on an island, where his only companions are his daughter, Miranda, the spirit Ariel, and the monster Caliban... Read Full Overview

This edition of The Tempest is especially designed for students, with accessible on-page notes and explanatory illustrations, clear background information, and rigorous but accessible scholarly credentials.This edition includes illustrations, preliminary notes, reading lists... Read Full Overview

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This critical edition of Shakespeares The Tempest contains the play and 21 additional selections representing major critical and cultural controversies surrounding the work providing you with more insight into the plays critical issues and cultural debates about literature itself... Read Full Overview

This wonderful presentation of Shakespeare's The Tempest features the play's original lines on each left-hand page, and a modern, easy-to-understand "translation" on the facing right-hand page. This invaluable teaching-study guide also includes:
Helpful background... Read Full Overview

This Norton Critical Edition includes:

- The First Folio (1623) text, accompanied by the editors' preface and detailed explanatory annotations.
- A rich collection of source materials by Ovid, Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, King James I, Michel de Montaigne,... Read Full Overview

The acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series, now in a dazzling new series design

Edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex.

The Wordsworth Classics' Shakespeare's Series presents a newly-edited sequence of William Shakespeare's works. The textual editing takes... Read Full Overview

The Tempest is one of Shakespeare's most popular plays, both in the classroom and in the theatre, and this revision brings the Arden Third series edition right up-to-date. A completely new section of the introduction discusses new thinking about Shakespeare's sources... Read Full Overview

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The Annotated Shakespeare series enables readers to fully understand and enjoy the plays of the world's greatest dramatist

The First Folio edition of The Tempest. This is a reprint, with original spelling and punctuation, of Shakespeare's last play.