The Annotated Shakespeare series enables readers to fully understand and enjoy the plays of the world's greatest dramatist

Shakespeare's valedictory play is also one of his most poetical and magical. The story involves the spirit Ariel, the savage Caliban, and Prospero, the banished Duke of Milan, now a wizard living on a remote island who uses his magic to shipwreck a party of ex-compatriots. This fully annotated version of The Tempest makes the play completely accessible to readers in the twenty-first century. Eminent linguist and translator Burton Raffel offers generous help with vocabulary, pronunciation, and prosody and provides alternative readings of phrases and lines. His on-page annotations give readers all the tools they need to comprehend the play and begin to explore its many possible interpretations.

Author: William Shakespeare
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 04/20/2006
Series: Annotated Shakespeare
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.33lbs
Size: 7.66h x 5.24w x 0.49d
ISBN: 9780300108163
Audience: 03 - 07


Award: 2010 Independent Publisher Book Awards Bronze Medal Winner - Graphic Novel-Drama


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 05/01/2006 pg. 134
Univ PR Books for Public Libry 01/01/2007 pg. 1 - Strongly Recommended

About the Author
Burton Raffel (1928-2015) was Distinguished Professor of Arts and Humanities emeritus and professor of English emeritus at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Among his many edited and translated publications are Poems and Prose from the Old English, Cligès, Lancelot, Perceval, Erec and Enide, and Yvain. Harold Bloom (1930-2019) was Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University and Berg Professor of English at New York University. His many books include The Western Canon, Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human, and Genius: A Mosaic of One Hundred Exemplary Creative Minds.