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.
"Two of the bard’s heavy dramas join Yale’s wonderfulAnnotated Shakespeareseries. Along with a heavily annotated text, each volume includes a scholarly introduction plus notes on the annotations. All that for the price of a Happy Meal: how can you go wrong?"—Library Journal(refers toHenry the Fourth, Part 1 & The Tempest)
"Two of the bard’s heavy dramas join Yale’s wonderfulAnnotated Shakespeareseries. . . . [How] can you go wrong?"—Library Journal
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Burton Raffelis Distinguished Professor of Arts and Humanities Emeritus and professor of English emeritus, University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Among his many edited and translated publications arePoems and Prose from the Old English, Clig?s, Lancelot, Perceval, Erec and Enide,andYvain,all published by Yale University Press.Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University and Berg Professor of English at New York University, is the author of many books,includingThe Western Canon, Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human,andWhere Shall Wisdom Be Found?
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