Item #311377 The Tempest (Norton Critical Editions). William Shakespeare.

The Tempest (Norton Critical Editions)

W.W. Norton & Co., December 2003. Trade Paperback. Item #311377
ISBN: 0393978192

Very good in wrappers (paperback).

"Sources and Contexts" offers a rich collection of documents on the play's central themes--magic and witchcraft, politics and religion, geography and travel. Writers include Ovid, Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Gabriel Naudé, Michel de Montaigne, and William Strachey.

"Criticism" collects eighteen responses to The Tempest, from John Dryden and Samuel Taylor Coleridge to Stephen Orgel and Leah Marcus. "Rewritings and Appropriations" includes creative reactions to The Tempest, by playwrights, filmmakers, and poets, among them H.D., Peter Greenaway, and Ted Hughes.

A Selected Bibliography is also included.

Price: $8.50

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