Oxford Shakespeare: the Tempest

Name: Oxford Shakespeare: the Tempest
Price: 4.38 USD
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9780199535903

ISBN-10: 0199535906

ISBN-13: 9780199535903

Edition: 2008

Authors: William. Shakespeare, Stephen Orgel

List price: $10.95

30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Sell

Get cash fast!

Buy new: $10.50

Marketplace

5 new & used from $4.38

what's this?

Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:

You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

Description:

Though written near the end of his career, The Tempest stands first in Shakespeare's First Folio of 1623. Recently redefined by modern criticism as a romance, the play has been read as an escapist fantasy, a political allegory, and a celebratory fiction. Most often, however, The Tempest is interpreted as a summary of Shakespeare's view of his own art of playwriting. In this edition, Stephen Orgel reassesses the evidence for each of these critical speculations, and finds the play to be both more open and more historically determined than traditional views have allowed. The text has been newly edited, and includes a stage history of its production, from the radical revisions of Davenant,…

Book details

List price: $10.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 6/15/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 5.08" wide x 7.72" long x 0.55" tall
Weight: 0.594



List of Illustrations


Introduction


Beginnings and Issues


First Appearances


The Genre


Readings and Interpretations


Wives and Mothers


Magic


Caliban


Suitors and Rapists


The Renaissance Political Context


Political Marriages


Utopia and the New World


Authority


Epic and History


Italy and Carthage


The Masque


Jacobean Court Spectacles


The Masque as Image and Symbol


Renunciation and Resolution


Text and Date


The Text


The Date


The Play on the Stage


Editorial Procedures


Abbreviations and References


The Tempest



The Seamanship of Act I , Scene I



The Strachey Letter



The Music



Florio's Montaigne


'Of the Cannibals'


From 'Of Cruelty'



Medea's Incantation


From Ovid, Metamorphoses, vii


From The Fifteen Books of P. Ovidius Naso, Entitled Metamorphosis, translated ... by Arthur Golding (1567)


Appendix F


Lineation


Index