The Tempest |
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Author:
| Shakespeare, William |
Editor:
| Mucciolo, John Lake, James H. |
Series title: | New Kittredge Shakespeare Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-1-58510-903-6 |
Publication Date: | Mar 2019 |
Publisher: | Hackett Publishing Company, Incorporated
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $8.95 |
Book Description:
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'An inspired edition of Shakespeare's late masterpiece, larded with riches that are at once accessible and challenging to students of The Tempest. These riches include a masterful introduction that sets forth major and minor characters in all their complexity; great page-for-page textual and performance notes that aptly explain the play's obscurities and showcase the many ways given scenes and speeches have been performed; an enlightening guide to the reading experience --...
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'An inspired edition of Shakespeare's late masterpiece, larded with riches that are at once accessible and challenging to students of The Tempest. These riches include a masterful introduction that sets forth major and minor characters in all their complexity; great page-for-page textual and performance notes that aptly explain the play's obscurities and showcase the many ways given scenes and speeches have been performed; an enlightening guide to the reading experience -- 'How to Read the Play as Performance; and brilliant questions for thought and discussion. Mahon and Mucciolo are the perfect guides through this most wondrous and perplexing play.' -- Laury Magnus, Professor of Humanities, U.S. Merchant Marine Academy