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The Tempest (No Fear Shakespeare)
The Tempest (No Fear Shakespeare)
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Author: William Shakespeare Edited by: Sparknotes Editors Publisher: SparkNotes Series: No Fear Shakespeare Format: Softcover # of Pages: 224 Pub. Date: 2003 ISBN-10: 1586638491 ISBN-13: 9781586638498
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About
the Play:
The
Tempest is an epic story of
shipwrecks, monsters, and magic, weaving a timeless tale of revenge,
redemption, and the power of forgiveness. The magician and former duke
Prospero, who has been exiled on an island with his daughter Miranda
for years, plots revenge on the brother who usurped his throne with
the help of the magical island creatures in his thrall. With its combination of comedy,
romance, revenge and fantasy, The Tempest
has always served as a wonderful introduction to Shakespeare,
especially for young playgoers. A masterpiece by William
Shakespeare, The
Tempest is celebrated for its
universal themes of freedom and captivity, betrayal and compassion,
and what is lost and what is found.
Read William Shakespeare's great comedy The
Tempest in all its brilliance and
actually understand what it means. No Fear Shakespeare
gives you Shakespeare's complete text of The Tempest on the
left-hand page, side-by-side with an easy-to-understand modern
English on the right.
Shakespeare side-by-side in
plain English. Each No Fear Shakespeare contains:
• The complete
text of the original play
• A line-by-line translation that
puts Shakespeare into the kind of English people actually speak
today
• A complete list of characters with descriptions
•
Plenty of helpful commentary
First performed in 1611, The
Tempest is believed to be the
last play William
Shakespeare wrote alone.
About the Playwright:
Arguably the greatest English-language playwright, William
Shakespeare was a seventeenth-century writer and dramatist, and
is known as the Bard of Avon. Under the patronage of Queen
Elizabeth I, he penned more than 30 plays, 154 sonnets, and
numerous narrative poems and short verses. Equally accomplished in
histories, tragedies, comedy, and romance, Shakespeare's most famous
works include Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet,
Macbeth, King Lear, The Taming of
the Shrew, and As You Like It. Like many of his
contemporaries, including Christopher Marlowe, Shakespeare
began his career on the stage, eventually rising to become part-owner
of Lord Chamberlain's Men, a popular dramatic company of his
day, and of the storied Globe Theatre in London. Extremely
popular in his lifetime, Shakespeare's works continue to
resonate more than three hundred years after his death. His plays are
performed more often than any other playwright's, have been
translated into every major language in the world, and are studied
widely by scholars and students. |
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