| Description |
x, 248 pages : illustrations, music ; 20 cm. |
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text txt rdacontent |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Series |
The World's classics |
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The Oxford Shakespeare
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World's classics.
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| Note |
Originally published: Oxford: Clarendon, 1987. |
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Includes index. |
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Author: William Shakespeare. |
| Contents |
Beginnings and issues -- First appearances -- The genre -- Readings and interpretations -- Wives and mothers -- Magic -- Caliban -- Suitors and rapists -- Renaissance political context: Political marriages -- Utopia and the New World -- Authority -- Epic and history: Italy and Carthage -- The masque: Jacobean Court spectacles -- Masque as image and symbol -- Renunciation and resolution -- Text and date: The text -- The date -- Play on the stage -- Editorial procedures: Abbreviations and references -- The tempest -- Appendix A: Seamanship of act 1, scene 1 -- Appendix B: Strachey letter -- Appendix C: The music -- Appendix D: Florio's montaigne -- 'Of the cannibals' -- From 'of cruelty' -- Appendix E: Medea's incantation: From Ovid, metamorphoses, vii -- From the fifteen books of P. Ovidius Naso, entitled Metamorphosis, translated ... by Arthur Golding (1567) -- Appendix F: Lineation -- Index. |
| Subject |
Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc. -- Drama.
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Fathers and daughters -- Drama.
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Castaways -- Drama.
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Magicians -- Drama.
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| Added Author |
Orgel, Stephen.
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| ISBN |
0192814508 (pbk.) |
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9780192814500 (pbk.) |
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0198129173 |
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9780198129172 |
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0192834142 (pbk.) |
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9780192834140 (pbk.) |
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