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The Tempest presents some of Shakespeare’s
most insightful meditations on the cycle of life—ending
and beginning, death and regeneration, bondage and freedom.
This Norton Critical Edition is based on the First Folio text
and is accompanied by explanatory annotations.
“Sources and Contexts”
offers a rich collection of documents on the play’s
central themes—magic and witchcraft, politics and religion,
geography and travel. Writers include Ovid, Giovanni Pico
della Mirandola, Gabriel Naudé, Michel de Montaigne,
and William Strachey.
“Criticism”
collects eighteen responses to The Tempest, from
John Dryden and Samuel Taylor Coleridge to Stephen Orgel and
Leah Marcus.
“Rewritings and
Appropriations” includes creative reactions to The
Tempest, by playwrights, filmmakers, and poets, among
them H.D., Peter Greenaway, and Ted Hughes.
A Selected Bibliography is also included.
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