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The Tempest

William Shakespeare

ISBN: 9781853262036

Language: English

Publisher: Wordsworth Editions

Year of publication: 2004

Number of pages: 126 pages

The Tempest is the most lyrical, profound and fascinating of Shakespeare’s late comedies. Prospero, long exiled from Italy with his daughter Miranda, seeks to use his magical powers to defeat his former enemies. Eventually, having proved merciful, he divests himself of that magic, his ’art’, and prepares to return to the mainland. The Tempest has often been regarded as Shakespeare’s ’farewell to the stage’ before his retirement. In the past, critics emphasised the romantically beautiful features of The Tempest, seeing it as imaginative fantasia. In recent decades, however, The Tempest has also been treated as a potently political drama which offers controversial insights into colonialism and racism. Frequently staged and diversely filmed, the play has influenced numerous poets and novelists.

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