For years, Prospero, sorcerer and overthrown Duke of Milan, and his daughter, Miranda, have been marooned on an island of magic, both good and evil. When a ship carrying his usurping brother sails within the realm of his power, Prospero unleashes a storm that leaves the crew washed ashore, separated, and vulnerable to his enchantments—and open to forgiveness, repentance, and love.
Given its themes of reconciliation and closure, and its references to the dissolution of “the great globe,” this tragicomedy of illusion and the supernatural is believed by some critics to be Shakespeare’s spellbinding farewell to the stage.
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Revised edition: Previously published as The Tempest, this edition of The Tempest (AmazonClassics Edition) includes editorial revisions.
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Scene 2 The island. Before the cell of Prospero |
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Scene 1 Another part of the island |
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Scene 2 Another part of the island |
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Scene 1 Before Prospero's cell |
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Scene 2 Another part of the island |
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Scene 3 Another part of the island |
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Scene 1 Before Prospero's cell |
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Scene 1 Before Prospero's cell |
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| About the Author |
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William Shakespeare (15641616) was born in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, to a middle-class glover and landowners daughter. He married Anne Hathaway in 1582 and moved to London to work with a theatrical troupe ten years later.
Since little has been learned of his early life, nearly all of what we know about Shakespeare beginson the London stagein 1592. In the wake of his critical and public success, Shakespeare helped build the Globe theater on the River Thames.
Regarded as the worlds preeminent dramatist, his extant works include thirty-eight plays, one hundred and fifty-four sonnets, and two narrative poems, and have been translated into every major language. To this day, his plays have been performed more often than those of any other playwrightadapted for film and television, updated, deconstructed, and transfigured into ballets, operas, and musicals. Though his formal education exceeded no further than grammar school, William Shakespeare became the most transcendent and influential writer in all of world literature.
