The Tempest by William Shakespeare
The Annotated Shakespeare series enables readers to fully understand and enjoy the plays of the world’s greatest dramatist Shakespeare’s valedictory play is also one of his most poetical and magical. The story involves the spirit Ariel, the savage Caliban, and Prospero, the banished Duke of Milan, now a wizard living on a remote island who uses his magic to shipwreck a party of ex-compatriots. This fully annotated version of The Tempest makes the play completely accessible to readers in the twenty-first century. Eminent linguist and translator Burton Raffel offers generous help with vocabulary, pronunciation, and prosody and provides alternative readings of phrases and lines. His on-page annotations give readers all the tools they need to comprehend the play and begin to explore its many possible interpretations.
“Two of the bard’s heavy dramas [Henry the Fourth, Part 1 and The Tempest] join Yale’s wonderful Annotated Shakespeare seriesAlong with a heavily annotated text, each volume includes a scholarly introduction plus notes on the annotations. All that for the price of a Happy Meal: how can you go wrong?”—Library Journal
Burton Raffel (1928–2015) was Distinguished Professor of Arts and Humanities emeritus and professor of English emeritus at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Among his many edited and translated publications are Poems and Prose from the Old English, Cligès, Lancelot, Perceval, Erec and Enide, and Yvain. Harold Bloom (1930–2019) was Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University and Berg Professor of English at New York University. His many books include The Western Canon, Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human, and Genius: A Mosaic of One Hundred Exemplary Creative Minds.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780300108163 |
| ISBN 10 | 0300108168 |
| Titel | The Tempest |
| Autor | William Shakespeare |
| Serie | The Annotated Shakespeare |
| Buchzustand | Nicht verfügbar |
| Bindungsart | Paperback |
| Verlag | Yale University Press |
| Erscheinungsjahr | 2006-04-01 |
| Seitenanzahl | 192 |
| Preise | Commended for Independent Publisher Book Awards (Graphic Novel-Drama) 2010 |
| Hinweis auf dem Einband | Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden. |
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