The Tempest
2nd Edition
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Part of The New Cambridge Shakespeare
- Real Author: William Shakespeare
- Editor: David Lindley, University of Leeds
- Date Published: June 2013
- availability: In stock
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781107619579
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The Tempest is one of the most suggestive, yet most elusive of all Shakespeare's plays, and has provoked a wide range of critical interpretations. It is a magical romance, yet deeply and problematically embedded in seventeenth-century debates about authority and power. In this updated edition, David Lindley has thoroughly revised the introduction and reading list to take account of the latest directions in criticism and performance. Including a new section on casting in recent productions, Lindley's introduction explores the complex questions this raises about colonization, racial and gender stereotypes, and the nature of the theatrical experience. Careful attention is also given to the play's dramatic form, stagecraft, and use of music and spectacle, to demonstrate its uniquely experimental nature.
Read more- Updated to reflect the latest criticism of the play and offers a comprehensive performance history including recent productions
- Contains a thoroughly revised introduction with four new illustrations and an additional section on casting
- Provides an acute commentary and gives awareness of musical elements of the play, especially its masque elements
Reviews & endorsements
Review of the first edition: 'If you are looking for a model edition - by which I mean one that is concerned to honour the text and to explain the processes involved in editing - this is it. If I were ever again to undertake the editing of a Shakespeare play, I would keep Lindley's edition of The Tempest open beside me.' Peter Thompson
See more reviewsReview of the first edition: 'David Lindley's [The] Tempest is the best edition on the market and the paperback is a snip.' Studies in Theatre and Performance
Review of the first edition: 'Lindley aims both to represent and to explain the range of readings given the play in its theatrical and critical afterlives. His edition meets the high standards of the series in an exemplary manner, offering an especially fine introduction that focuses on the elusiveness of The Tempest, a feature that has made it central to late-twentieth-century criticism.' Barbara Hodgdon, Studies in English Literature
Review of the first edition: 'David Lindley's edition of The Tempest is easily the most outstanding version of this ostensibly straightforward yet hugely teasing play produced over the last thirty years. Its precise and scrupulous commentary notes are careful to the variety of ways the text can be spoken on stage. Its notes on the music and songs are admirably evocative, and its economical account of the huge range of critical views will send thousands of readers out in fruitful chases after the play's own multitudinous interests.' Andrew Gurr, editor, New Variorum 'Tempest'
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- Edition: 2nd Edition
- Date Published: June 2013
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781107619579
- length: 298 pages
- dimensions: 228 x 152 x 13 mm
- weight: 0.51kg
- contains: 26 b/w illus.
- availability: In stock
Table of Contents
List of abbreviations and conventions
Preface to the second edition
Introduction
Note on the text
List of characters
The play
Textual analysis
Appendix 1. The songs
Appendix 2. Parallel passages from Virgil and Ovid
Appendix 3. And others: casting the play
Reading list.
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