This is the first edition of "The Tempest" to be developed by and for the RSC, the world's leading Shakespeare theatre company and it includes unique material to help the reader understand and enjoy Shakespeare on the stage as well as on the page. It is illustrated with photographs of classic and unusual performances. It includes outstanding on-page notes which explain words and phrases unfamiliar to a modern audience, including the slang, political references and bawdy humour often ignored or censored in competing editions. It includes scene-by-scene summary, offering an easily understandable way into the play. It offers completely new introduction by Jonathan Bate, exploring the text and critical debates around it. It provides summary of the play's performance history at the RSC and elsewhere. It includes interviews with important Shakespearean directors Peter Brook, Sam Mendes and Rupert Goold discussing key productions at the RSC.Developed by and for the Royal Shakespeare Company, this new edition includes outstanding on-page notes, a comprehensive scene-by-scene summary, a new introduction from Jonathan Bate and interviews with celebrated directors Peter Brook, Sam Mendes and Rupert Goold, offering illuminating new angles on Shakespeare's magical vision.
| ISBN | 0230217850 | | Pages | 176 | | ISBN13 | 9780230217850
(What's this?) | | Volumes | 001 | | Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan | | Weight (grammes) | 198 | | Imprint | Palgrave Macmillan | | Published in | Basingstoke | | Format | Paperback | | Series title | The RSC Shakespeare | | Publication date | 05 Sep 2008 | | Height (mm) | 196 | | Library of Congress | PR2827 | | Width (mm) | 129 | | DEWEY | 822.33 | | Spine width (mm) | 11 | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | | Academic level | General |
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Introduction to The Tempest Introduction to the Text Key Facts The Tempest Textual Notes Second Quarto passages that do not appear in the Folio Scene-by-scene Analysis The Tempest in Performance: the RSC and Beyond Four Centuries of The Tempest: An Overview At the RSC The Director's Cut: interviews with Peter Brook, Sam Mendes, Rupert Goold Shakespeare's Career in the Theatre Shakespeare's Works: a Conjectural Chronology Further Reading
"'Informative, thought-provoking and humane.' - Dr Colin Burrow, University of Oxford 'Footnotes at the bottom of each page gloss unfamiliar items of vocabulary, paraphrase tricky meanings and uncover bawdy puns. There is a universe to be found in these annotations: the Renaissance world of power and fate, sex and death, language and philosophy.' - Times Educational Supplement"
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