This Norton Critical Edition includes:• The First Folio (1623) text, accompanied by the editors’ preface and detailed explanatory annotations.• A rich collection of source materials by Ovid, Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, King James I, Michel de Montaigne and others centered on the play’s major themes of magic, witchcraft, politics, religion, geography and travel.• Seventeen wide-ranging scholarly essays, seven of them new to the Second Edition.• Nineteen rescriptings that speak to The Tempest’s enduring inspiration and provocation for writers from Thomas Heywood and Percy Bysshe Shelley to Aimé Césaire and Ted Hughes.• A Selected Bibliography.About the SeriesRead by more than 12 million students over fifty-five years, Norton Critical Editions set the standard for apparatus that is right for undergraduate readers. The three-part format—annotated text, contexts and criticism—helps students to better understand, analyse and appreciate the literature, while opening a wide range of teaching possibilities for instructors. Whether in print or in digital format, Norton Critical Editions provide all the resources students need.

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Utgivningsdatum2019-03-08
Mått130 x 211 x 23 mm
Vikt431 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieNorton Critical Editions
Antal sidor392
Upplaga2
FörlagWW Norton & Co
ISBN9780393265422

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Peter Hulme is Professor of Literature at the University of Essex. He is the author of Colonial Encounters: Europe and the Native Caribbean, 1492-1797 and Remnants of Conquest: The Caribs and Their Visitors, 1877-1998. He is co-editor, with William H. Sherman, of The Tempest and Its Travels and, with Tim Young, of the Cambridge Companion to Travel Writing. William H. Sherman is Professor of Early Modern Studies in the Department of English and Related Literature at the University of York. He is the author of John Dee: The Politics of Reading and Writing in the English Renaissance and of many articles on Renaissance literature, travel writing, and the history of the book. He has also edited The Tempest and Its Travels with Peter Hulme, and the new Cambridge edition of Ben Jonson's The Alchemist with Peter Holland.