| Description |
xxxviii, 116 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm. |
| Series |
A Bantam classic
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| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages [108]-113. |
| Note |
"Bantam edition, with newly edited text and substantially revised, edited, and amplified notes, introductions, and other materials"--T.p. verso. |
| Contents |
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 -- 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) -- Lineation. |
| Subject |
Fathers and daughters -- Drama.
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Political refugees -- Drama.
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Shipwreck victims -- Drama.
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Magicians -- Drama.
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Islands -- Drama.
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Spirits -- Drama.
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| Added Author |
Bevington, David M.
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| ISBN |
0553213075 paperback |
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9780553213072 paperback |
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