The Tempest"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 extensively annotated version of The Tempest makes the play completely accessible to readers in the twenty-first century." "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. Raffel provides an introductory essay, and in a concluding essay, Harold Bloom examines the characters Prospero and Caliban."--BOOK JACKET. |
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... allusions in the play . KNIGHT , whose edition followed hard upon Hunter's Disquisition , says : " We ' believe that the poet had no locality whatever in his mind , just as he had no notion ' of any particular storm . Tempests and ...
... allusions in the play . KNIGHT , whose edition followed hard upon Hunter's Disquisition , says : " We ' believe that the poet had no locality whatever in his mind , just as he had no notion ' of any particular storm . Tempests and ...
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... allusions which deter- ' mine the outline of the narrative to belong to the Mediterranean are not sufficiently ' historical to demand that the mysterious island of Prospero should be identified , in ' the play , with any real locality ...
... allusions which deter- ' mine the outline of the narrative to belong to the Mediterranean are not sufficiently ' historical to demand that the mysterious island of Prospero should be identified , in ' the play , with any real locality ...
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... allusion to the singular mode of exe- cution to which pirates were condemned in England . Pirats and robbers by sea are condemned in the court of admiraltie , and hanged on the shore at lowe water marke , where they are left till three ...
... allusion to the singular mode of exe- cution to which pirates were condemned in England . Pirats and robbers by sea are condemned in the court of admiraltie , and hanged on the shore at lowe water marke , where they are left till three ...
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... allude to lopping of trees , but if we examine the context , no such violent measure seems there suggested . It is opposed only to advance , and seems to mean no more than that those who were too forward , he kept back , did not advance ...
... allude to lopping of trees , but if we examine the context , no such violent measure seems there suggested . It is opposed only to advance , and seems to mean no more than that those who were too forward , he kept back , did not advance ...
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... allusion is made to Theobald ] : Who having unto truth , by telling oft , ' that is , WARBURTON feels obliged to paraphrase , by often repeating the same story , made his memory such a sinner unto truth as to give credit to his own lie ...
... allusion is made to Theobald ] : Who having unto truth , by telling oft , ' that is , WARBURTON feels obliged to paraphrase , by often repeating the same story , made his memory such a sinner unto truth as to give credit to his own lie ...
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Common terms and phrases
ABBOTT agen ALLEN Phila allusion Alonzo Antonio appears Ariel Ben Jonson Bermudas busy Caliban called CAPELL Ceres character Coll COLLIER conj Cotgrave Crit Cymbeline daughter drama Duke Dyce edition editor ELZE emendation Enter Exeunt F₂ father Ferd Ferdinand Folio follows give Gonzalo Halliwell haue Huds Hunter island Jeph John JOHNSON King Ktly labours Lampedusa Lord Ludolff Malone marriage Masque meaning Miranda Monster moſt nature night passage perhaps Phila pioned play poet Pope et seq Pope+ Prince Prosp Prospero rack refers Rowe says scene Sebastian seems sense Setebos Shakespeare ſhall ship Sidea Sing speech spirit STAUNTON Steev STEEVENS Steph Stephano suggested supposed sweet thoughts Sycorax tell Tempest thee Theob Theobald theſe thou Trinc Trinculo twilled vpon W. A. WRIGHT Walker Warb Winter's Tale word
Popular passages
Page vii - Be not afeard ; the isle is full of noises, Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments Will hum about mine ears, and sometimes voices That, if I then had waked after long sleep, Will make me sleep again : and then, in dreaming, The clouds methought would open and show riches Ready to drop upon me, that, when I waked, I cried to dream again.
Page 207 - Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed; and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall melt.
Page 101 - Their downy breast; the swan with arched neck, Between her white wings, mantling proudly, rows Her state with oary feet...
Page 284 - Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits, and Are melted into air, into thin air: And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on ; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.
Page 349 - All hail, great master! grave sir, hail ! I come To answer thy best pleasure ; be't to fly, To swim, to dive into the fire, to ride On the curl'd clouds ; to thy strong bidding, task Ariel, and all his quality.
Page 82 - Call for the robin redbreast, and the -wren, Since o'er shady groves they hover, And with leaves and flowers do cover The friendless bodies of unburied men.
Page 83 - And as we tarried there many days, there came down from Judea a certain prophet, named Agabus. 11 And when he was come unto us, he took Paul's girdle, and bound his own hands and feet, and said, Thus saith the Holy Ghost, So shall the Jews at Jerusalem bind the man that owneth this girdle, and shall deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.