The Tempest

With new dramatic criticism and and updated bibliography

Special introduction to the play by the editor, Robert Langbaum, University of Virginia

General discussion of Shakespeare's live, world, and theater by the general editor of the Signet Classic Shakespeare series, Sylvan Barnet, Tufts University

Substantial notes on the sources of The Tempest, with extracts from them

Dramatic criticism from the past and present: commentaries by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, E.M.W. Tillyard, Reuben A. Brower, Bernard Knox, Lorie Jerrell Leininger

A new, comprehensive stage history of notable actors, directors, and productions of The Tempest, then and now.

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