Europeans collide with an unknown new world in this curious play, filled with magic, corruption, intrigue, lust, and full-on comedy.
Written and staged around 1610, The Tempest reflects a contemporary fascination with those mysterious and foreign parts of the world newly available to European exploration and exploitation. How would old and new worlds interact?
Few come off surrounded by virtue in Shakespeare's drama. Daniel Fischlin-the ingenious creator of the Canadian Adaptations of Shakespeare Project-has written an excellent introduction that provides dark and delightful new ways to understand this play, including insights from Northrop Frye, Margaret Atwood, Robertson Davies, and Normand Chaurette.
This edition draws on the best international research on Shakespeare. Daniel Fischlin's brilliant introduction provides dark and delightful new ways to understand this play, including some uniquely Canadian insights from Northrop Frye, Margaret Atwood, Robertson Davies, and Normand Chaurette. A preface by Daniel David Moses provides a different voice, guaranteed to surprise.
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