Tempest (Shakespeare - 2nd Norton ed.)

Author: William Shakespeare

ISBN: 9780393265422

Binding: paperback

Section: Drama-Plays

This Norton Critical Edition includes the First Folio (1623) text, accompanied by the editors’ preface and detailed explanatory annotations, as well as a rich collection of source materials by Ovid, Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, King James I, Michel de Montaigne, and others centered on the play’s major themes of magic, witchcraft, politics, religion, geography, and travel. Further included are seventeen scholarly essays—seven of them new to the Second Edition—and nineteen rescriptings that speak to The Tempest’s enduring inspiration and provocation for writers.