
"Tempest"
The Arden Shakespeare (Publisher)
3rd Edition
Published on 13. August 1999
Book
Hardback
392 pages
978-1-903436-07-3 (ISBN)
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Description
The Tempest has long dazzled readers and audiences with its intricate blend of magic, music, humour, intrigue and tenderness, its vibrant but ambiguous central characters. As Virginia and Alden Vaughan show, in their wide-ranging new edition of this established favourite, such antithetical extremes exemplify the play's endlessly arguable nature, its appeal to diverse eras and cultures.The Vaughans situate The Tempest at the centre of changing cultural attitudes towards colonialism, power politics and patriarchal hierarchies, and demonstrate how the play both shaped and reflected those changing attitudes. Informed by the concerns of a post-colonial international community, their edition emphasizes the play's world-wide cultural appropriation, and includes an extensive discussion of the play's after-life as well as an appendix of selected appropriations. The interdisciplinary editorial approach contributes a distinctively blended cultural and historical focus.'The Vaughans have provided a valuable new edition of the play, one whose expanded contextualisation, especially, will contribute to The Tempest's lively and varied afterlife both within and beyond the classroom.'
Barbara Fuchs, University of Washington, Seattle, Shakespeare Quarterly
Barbara Fuchs, University of Washington, Seattle, Shakespeare Quarterly
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Series
Edition
3rd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
Primary & secondary/elementary & high school
College/higher education
Edition type
Revised edition
Illustrations
illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 129 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-903436-07-3 (9781903436073)
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