The Tempest / William Shakespeare ; Daniel Fischlin, general series editor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616, author.

Contributor:

Fischlin, Daniel, editor of series.

Series:

Shakespeare made in Canada

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fathers and daughters--Drama.

Fathers and daughters.

Political refugees--Drama.

Political refugees.

Shipwreck victims--Drama.

Shipwreck victims.

Magicians--Drama.

Magicians.

Islands--Drama.

Islands.

Spirits--Drama.

Spirits.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Tempest.

Shakespeare, William.

Genre:

Drama.

Physical Description:

x, 132 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Don Mills, Ont. : Oxford University Press, 2013.

Summary:

Europeans collide with an unknown new world in this play, filled with magic, corruption, intrigue, lust, and full-on comedy. First written and staged around 1610, The Tempest reflects a fascination with those mysterious and foreign parts of the world newly available to European exploration and exploitation. How would old and new worlds interact? Leading Canadian Shakespeare scholar Daniel Fischlin's introduction provides dark and delightful new ways to understand this play, including insights from Northrop Frye, Margaret Atwood, Robertson Davies, and Normand Chaurette. Canada has been doing Shakespeare for over 150 years. From sumptuous Hamlet productions at Stratford to First Nations adaptations of The Tempest to bilingual stagings of Romeo and Juliet, this country's encounter with Shakespeare has been marked by imagination, ingenuity, and originality, not to mention a wholesale lack of fear. For over a decade the University of Guelph has been researching Canadian adaptations of Shakespeare. Shakespeare Made in Canada draws from this rich world-class archival material to create the first-ever editions of Shakespeare specifically for students and general readers in Canada. Each edition is modern, clear, and accessible, and includes: rigorous new editions of playtexts, new notes that are engaging, concise, and road-tested by a team of students and scholars, an introduction that balances the best available scholarship with production history in Canada, a short, no-holds-barred preface by a prominent Canadian, an introduction by a world-class Shakespeare scholar, ten tips for reading Shakespeare, production artwork and overall presentations that take us from the cultural highs to the unbridled lows Book jacket.

Contents:

"Where is Here?": Shakespeare, Canada, and The Tempest / Daniel Fischlin Fischlin, Daniel 1

The Tempest 31

Editorial Principles and Works Cited 131.

Notes:

A play.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780199009978

019900997X

OCLC:

854496341