The Tempest by William Shakespeare - William Shakespeare - Books -  - 9798709343542 - February 14, 2021
In case cover and title do not match, the title is correct

The Tempest by William Shakespeare


Get an email once the item is available
Do you have a profile? Log in
Add to your iMusic wish list

Prospero, long exiled from Italy with his daughter Miranda, seeks to use his magical powers to defeat his former enemies. Eventually, having proved merciful, he divests himself of that magic, his `art', and prepares to return to the mainland. The Tempest is one of the most suggestive, yet most elusive of all Shakespeare's plays, and has provoked a wide range of critical interpretation. It is a magical romance, yet deeply and problematically embedded in seventeenth-century debates about authority and power. Performed variously as escapist fantasy, celebratory fiction, and political allegory, The Tempest is one of the plays in which Shakespeare's genius as a poetic dramatist found its fullest expression. Significantly, it was placed first when published in the First Folio of 1623, and is now generally seen as the playwright's most penetrating statement about his art.

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released February 14, 2021
ISBN13 9798709343542
Pages 248
Dimensions 216 × 280 × 13 mm   ·   585 g
Language English  

More by William Shakespeare

Show all

More from this series