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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

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

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

Generally believed to be the last play written solely by Shakespeare, The Tempest centers on a banished noble who uses sorcery to confront his foes. In this play, Shakespeare offers some of his most insightful meditations on themes ranging from vengeance and forgiveness to nature... Read Full Overview

The Signet Classics edition of William Shakespeare's fantastical play that combines elements of tragedy and comedy. Prospero, sorcerer and rightful Duke of Milan, along with his daughter Miranda, has lived on an island for many years since his position was usurped by his brother... 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

The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emphasis on performance. The series features line-by-line commentaries and textual notes on the plays and poems. Introductions are regularly refreshed with accounts of new critical,... 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

In the CliffsComplete guides, the play's complete text and a glossary appear side-by-side with coordinating numbered lines to help you understand unusual words and phrasing. You'll also find all the commentary and resources of a standard CliffsNotes for Literature.

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The Signet Classics edition of William Shakespeare's fantastical play that combines elements of tragedy and comedy. Prospero, sorcerer and rightful Duke of Milan, along with his daughter Miranda, has lived on an island for many years since his position was usurped by his brother... Read Full Overview

Shakespeare everyone can understand--now in new DELUXE editions!

This bewitching play, Shakespeare's final work, articulates a wealth of the playwright's mature reflections on life and contains some of his most familiar and oft-quoted lines. The story concerns Miranda, a lovely young maiden, and Prospero, her philosophical old magician father,... Read Full Overview

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

An improved, larger-format edition of the Cambridge School Shakespeare plays, extensively rewritten, expanded and produced in an attractive new design. An active approach to classroom Shakespeare enables students to inhabit Shakespeare's imaginative world in accessible and creative... Read Full Overview

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

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