The tempest
by
 
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

Title
The tempest

Author
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

ISBN
9780192814500

Personal Author
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

Publication Information
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1994, ©1987.

Physical Description
x, 248 pages : illustrations, music ; 20 cm.

Series
The World's classics
 
The Oxford Shakespeare
 
World's classics.

General Note
Originally published: Oxford: Clarendon, 1987.
 
Includes index.
 
Author: William Shakespeare.

Contents
Beginnings and issues -- First appearances -- The genre -- Readings and interpretations -- Wives and mothers -- Magic -- Caliban -- Suitors and rapists -- Renaissance political context: Political marriages -- Utopia and the New World -- Authority -- Epic and history: Italy and Carthage -- The masque: Jacobean Court spectacles -- Masque as image and symbol -- Renunciation and resolution -- Text and date: The text -- The date -- Play on the stage -- Editorial procedures: Abbreviations and references -- The tempest -- Appendix A: Seamanship of act 1, scene 1 -- Appendix B: Strachey letter -- Appendix C: The music -- Appendix D: Florio's montaigne -- 'Of the cannibals' -- From 'of cruelty' -- Appendix E: 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.

Subject Term
Survival -- Drama.
 
Fathers and daughters -- Drama.
 
Castaways -- Drama.
 
Magicians -- Drama.
 
Castaways. (OCoLC)fst00848392
 
Fathers and daughters. (OCoLC)fst00921890
 
Magicians. (OCoLC)fst01005551
 
Survival. (OCoLC)fst01761768

Genre
Drama. (OCoLC)fst01423879

Added Author
Orgel, Stephen, 1933-


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