Verlag | Penguin Books UK |
Auflage | 2015 |
Seiten | 240 |
Format | 12,9 x 19,7 x 1,2 cm |
Gewicht | 182 g |
Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
Reihe | Penguin Classics |
ISBN-10 | 014139630X |
EAN | 9780141396309 |
Bestell-Nr | 14139630EA |
Performed variously as escapist fantasy, celebratory fiction, and political allegory, The Tempest is one of the plays in which William Shakespeare\'s genius as a poetic dramatist found its fullest expression. This Penguin Shakespeare edition is edited with an introduction by Martin Butler. \'How many goodly creatures are there here!How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world,That has such people in\'t!\' A storm rages. Prospero, his daughter Miranda, and his monstrous servant Caliban watch from their desert island as a ship carrying the royal family is wrecked. Miraculously, all on board survive. Plotting, mistaken identities, bewitching love and drunkenness follow as the travellers explore the strange place of spirits and monsters on which they have landed. They soon begin to realize all is not as it seems, in a play whose magical setting and classical unity of time and place have inspired films as varied as Forbidden Planet, Peter Greenaway\'s Prospero\'s Books, and Julie Taymor\'s The Tempest, starring Helen Mirren as \'Prospera\'
Klappentext:
\'The magic in The Tempest is real ... It contains a great many unanswered questions\' Margaret Atwood
A storm rages. Prospero and his daughter watch from their desert island as a ship carrying the royal family is wrecked. Miraculously, all on board survive. Plotting, mistaken identities, bewitching love and enchantment follow as the travellers explore this mysterious place of spirits and monsters, and discover that all is not as it seems. Shakespeare\'s late, great play is a work filled with marvels, music and strangeness, fully exploiting the power of language and the magic of theatre.
Used and Recommended by the National Theatre
General Editor Stanley Wells
Edited with an Introduction by Martin Butler