Condition
GOOD: The book’s spine, covers, and pages are in good condition. There are no markings or highlights. The pages have no creasing, but they are tanning with age (1961). The front cover has a light spot where a price sticker used to be.
Product Details
The Tempest
This book is part of the Folger Library Collections and is edited by Louis B. Wright and Virginia A. LaMar. There are black-and-white, pen-and-ink drawings throughout.
Every fifth line of each scene is numbered for easy reference. Each scene is preceded by a brief glossary (indexed by line number) and a brief summary. At the end of the book, there is a key to famous lines and phrases.
Other features of the The Folger Library Shakespeare editions include:
- reliable text with modernized spelling and punctuation
- scene-by-scene plot summaries
- explanatory notes that clarify obscure and obsolete expressions
- interpretative essay
- accounts of Shakespeare's life and theater
- list of references for further reading
"It was a play that pleased the dramatist's contemporaries and has pleased audiences from that day to this, a mature play with a serene outlook, with just the right mixture of fantasy, philosophy, spectacle, and humor to delight King James and many who have come after him." — From "Island of Magic" (page viii).
CliffsNotes
From “A Note to the Reader”: “These Notes present a clear discussion of the action and thought of the work under consideration and a concise interpretation of its artistic merits and its significance. …
“THESE NOTES ARE NOT A SUBSTITUTE FOR THE TEXT ITSELF OR FOR THE CLASSROOM DISCUSSION OF THE TEXT, AND STUDENTS WHO ATTEMPT TO USE THEM IN THIS WAY ARE DENYING THEMSELVES THE VERY EDUCATION THAT THEY ARE PRESUMABLY GIVING THEIR MOST VITAL YEARS TO ACHIEVE.”
Contents
- Introduction to Shakespeare
- Introduction to The Tempest
- Synopsis
- List of Characters
- Summaries and Commentaries
- Character Analyses
- Review Questions
- Selected Bibliography
