The Tempest is one of the most suggestive, yet most elusive of all Shakespeares 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. David Lindleys Introduction and commentary focus upon contemporary texts, attending to the implications of Prosperos magic, his political and paternal ambitions, and the controversial issue of his colonialist control of Caliban. The Tempest was also Shakespeares response to the new opportunities offered by the Blackfriars theatre, and careful attention is given to the plays dramatic form, stage-craft, and use of music and spectacle, to demonstrate its uniquely experimental nature.
From the universally celebrated to the less well-known, the tragic to the comic, the witty to the wise, the words that Shakespeare's characters speak when alone provide some of the most thrilling and memorable moments in the plays. Michael Kerrigan's unique collection is the first book to bring together the greatest of Shakespeare's soliloquies. This is the ideal volume for lovers of Shakespeare everywhere, showing his poetic genius in all its range and richness.
Reading creases on spine, only light shelf wear to the cover edges and surface and a slight slant to the book. Otherwise in very good condition. The pages are tight and very clean and there are no in
