Folger Shakespeare Library's "The Tempest" Classic Play

Javier Jimenez: Buen estado

United States on Sep 27, 2023

B.L.Bhat: A good book in English literature

India on Sep 18, 2023

Johann Kleinfercher: Faszinierende Analysen zu den diversen Interpretationen seit der Uraufführug (vgl. Helen Mirren, Jarmusch, Gielgud !)

Germany on May 18, 2023

Missy: Son had to read for school. He didn't like it but it served its purpose!

United States on Apr 01, 2023

Romulo Dück: Livro em formato digital enviado diretamente para o Kindle. Muito rápido e formato ótimo.

Brazil on Oct 06, 2022

ADALBERTO DE LA FUENTE CHÁVEZ: Muy didactico

Mexico on Apr 28, 2021

Brett_Sara: Good

Canada on Mar 20, 2021

Reinold F.: A barren island lost in the sea, a harsh prison, is the place in which Shakespeare creates a world rich in mythology, nobility and revenge. A revenge that I thought it was going to end in a certain way but ended in another way in a human and natural ending. It is so exciting to read, in its short extension the words convey much information charged with intense emotions, as if it were an old nordic saga. For example Prospero is always asking in a salty way if he is being heard and understood, it is evident he has been terribly wronged in the past, and that it was due to his own innocence of character, he is not going to allow it to happen again. And so with all the characters, the more we get to know of them the more complex they are. The magic is superb, Shakespeare is a genius in which this presence of magic doesn't overpower the story (as it happens with many cinema directors that sacrifice the plot relying instead in CGI) instead it gives it a timeless taste, a classic taste. Think in his contemporary Cervantes for example, the Don Quixote is glorious but, as it is set in a country under the strict social presence of the Catholic Church (I say it in a respectful way, I...

United States on Dec 11, 2019

T. A. Kleinhans: This is a genuinely good work of drama, which I had to read for my Intro. to Drama class. This is one of those works of Shakespeare that has been done in a multitude of forms and variations, so it is quite likely that everyone has a rough idea of the story. Still, you really cannot replace the original. It's a bit odd, but quite good fun as well. The characters are memorable, and reading the story helps a great deal in understanding the numerous references to it that can be found elsewhere (not to mention, it's good entertainment). As to the edition itself, I found it to be greatly helpful in understanding the action in the play. It has a layout which places each page of the play opposite a page of notes, definitions, explanations, and other things needed to understand that page more thoroughly. While I didn't always need it, I was certainly glad to have it whenever I ran into a turn of language that was unfamiliar, and I definitely appreciated the scene-by-scene summaries. Really, if you want to or need to read Shakespeare, an edition such as this is really the way to go, especially until you get more accustomed to it.

United States on Jan 27, 2014

Ian M. Slater: This Kindle edition of Shakespeare's late (some think final) play, "The Tempest," is in fact two books in one, both illustrated, both from around the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth. The text of the book has no pretensions to be a scholarly contribution, or an aide to students, or even a guide for would-be actors or directors. It is just an attractive presentation of a one of Shakespeare's most tightly-constructed plays, with a supplement.

Since I just reviewed the "Norton Critical Edition" of the play, with its textual notes, glosses to the text, and selected source-texts and critical essays, I found this a welcome change.

The first of the two is a 1901 illustrated edition, the work of Robert Anning Bell: about eighty full, half, and quarter-page illustrations and page decorations. with the text of the then-current "Cambridge Edition." This is reproduced with some loss; the text combined with pictures is omitted, and a separate digital text provided; half the front end-paper is missing; facing pages no longer face each other. However, the reproduction of the art is crisp and clean. The cover art has been colored, which definitely...

United States on Oct 10, 2012