The Tempest No Fear Shakespeare Side-by-Side Plain English
by Shakespeare, William; SparkNotesFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2003-07-03
Publisher(s): SparkNotes
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Summary
The Everyman Shakespeare is the most authoritative, up-to-date paperback edition of the plays and poems.
Author Biography
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (1564-1616) wrote 37 plays. King Lear and Macbeth are widely considered his finest and most popular. They are, perhaps, the most frequently produced works on the planet.
Table of Contents
| List of Illustrations | p. ix |
| Introduction | |
| Beginnings and Issues | |
| First Appearances | p. 1 |
| The Genre | p. 4 |
| Readings and Interpretations | p. 5 |
| Wives and Mothers | p. 18 |
| Magic | p. 20 |
| Caliban | p. 23 |
| Suitors and Rapists | p. 28 |
| The Renaissance Political Context | |
| Political Marriages | p. 30 |
| Utopia and the New World | p. 31 |
| Authority | p. 36 |
| Epic and History | |
| Italy and Carthage | p. 39 |
| The Masque | |
| Jacobean Court Spectacles | p. 43 |
| The Masque as Image and Symbol | p. 47 |
| Renunciation and Resolution | p. 50 |
| Text and Date | |
| The Text | p. 56 |
| The Date | p. 62 |
| The Play on the Stage | p. 64 |
| Editorial Procedures | p. 89 |
| Abbreviations and References | p. 89 |
| The Tempest | p. 93 |
| The Seamanship of Act I, Scene I | p. 207 |
| The Strachey Letter | p. 209 |
| The Music | p. 220 |
| Florio's Montaigne | p. 227 |
| 'Of the Cannibals' | p. 227 |
| From 'Of Cruelty' | p. 238 |
| Medea's Incantation | p. 239 |
| From Ovid, Metamorphoses, vii | p. 239 |
| From The Fifteen Books of P. Ovidius Naso, Entitled Metamorphosis, translated...by Arthur Golding (1567) | p. 240 |
| Lineation | p. 242 |
| Index | p. 245 |
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