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The Tempest (The Pelican Shakespeare) (original 1610; edition 1999)

by William Shakespeare (Author)

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The Tempest is thought by many to be Shakespeare's greatest and most perfect play. When the magician Prospero deliberately summons a storm to overcome his enemy King Alonso of Naples ship the passengers are washed ashore on a fantastical island. Prospero manipulates the king, his entourage, apparitions and fiends as he schemes revenge on the hapless Alonso. Prospero's daughter and the King's son Ferdinand fall in love and their fraught lover provides the catalyst for their fathers' reconciliation, contrition and clemency.

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Title:The Tempest (The Pelican Shakespeare)
Authors:William Shakespeare (Author)
Info:Penguin Classics (1999), Edition: Edition Unstated, 84 pages
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The Tempest by William Shakespeare (1610)

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    Forbidden Planet: A Novel by W. J. Stuart (Anonymous user)
    Anonymous user: The Tempest in outer space.
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    Ariel by Grace Tiffany (gabeblaze)
    gabeblaze: Ariel is the story of the tempest from the knavish sprite Ariel's point of view, the story is basically the same as the classic The Tempest, with some exceptions.
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    Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (Sylak)
    Sylak: Caliban in The Tempest has many parallels with John the Savage in Brave New World.
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    The Collector by John Fowles (Booksloth)
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    Mama Day by Gloria Naylor (susanbooks)
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    Prospero's Daughter by Elizabeth Nunez (susanbooks)
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    The Tempest [sound recording] by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Anonymous user)
    Anonymous user: A musical spin-off worth reading/hearing. If you can, read the score. If you can't, check any of the available recordings (Abbado, Fistoulari, Pletnev, Jarvi, Litton, Stokowski, Toscanini).
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    The Sea and the Mirror by W. H. Auden (Anonymous user)
    Anonymous user: A literary spin-off that surpasses the original. A rare case indeed! What Will started 400 years ago, Wystan finished in the last century: he turned the cardboard stereotypes into real characters.
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    An Unofficial Rose by Iris Murdoch (JuliaMaria)
    JuliaMaria: In der Einleitung zu "an unofficial rose" von Iris Murdoch schreibt Anthony D. Nuttal: "But this book is really much more Shakespearen than it is Dickensian, The Tempest, which will figure so prominently in The Sea, The Sea, is powerfully though less obtrusively operative in this earlier book."… (more)
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    The Dream of Perpetual Motion by Dexter Palmer (sturlington)
    sturlington: The Dream of Perpetual Motion is a steampunk retelling of The Tempest
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Shakespeare is always a difficult to review, simply because going back and forth between the annotation makes pulls one out of the story, but to get the greatest understanding, they are important. I think these are plays that require more than one reading to fully understand.

As for the Tempest, I found it to be a be a bit - overdone. Prospero and his granddaughter, Miranda, are exiled to an empty island, where he learns secret magical arts of binding spirits. A number of years later, he uses these arts to bring his nemesis and their sons to the island, where after a few pranks and punishment, Miranda and Ferdinand are engaged to each other and all is well. ( )
  TheDivineOomba | Jan 15, 2024 |
For the 400th anniversary of the publication of Shakespeare's First Folio, I thought I would read one of the plays in it which, but for its publication, would have been lost to us. While a performance of this play (though I have never seen one) contains some strong imagery, I don't think this worked as a playscript. After a strong start in Act 1 with the shipwreck, and Prospero's backstory conversation with Miranda, I thought it meandered after that and I didn't enjoy it much. ( )
  john257hopper | Nov 10, 2023 |
so...what the hell happened with that ending, will?? ( )
  pagemother | Apr 5, 2023 |
Great book! Really interesting, moves quickly, and fairly easy read (for a Shakespeare). Currently my second-favorite Shakespeare (the first being The Merchant of Venice). ( )
  jhellar | Jan 14, 2023 |
No.
I don't know if I stopped liking Shakespeare or if this is just plain bad, but I refuse to continue. It's sexist, boring and I don't want to.
The reason I picked this up is because I am interested in two books that are inspired by this play so I wanted to give the original a try. I will look up a summary or something that doesn't waste my time instead.
Maybe I don't enjoy reading plays anymore.
  elderlingfae | Aug 11, 2022 |
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Shakespeare, Williamprimary authorall editionsconfirmed
Maurer, Leopoldmain authorall editionsconfirmed
Shakespearemain authorall editionsconfirmed
Andrews, John F.Editorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Arnold, AnnCover artistsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Barton, AnneEditorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Black, Ebenezer CharltonEditorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
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Gentleman, DavidCover designersecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
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Boatswain!
At the maindeck of a ship at sea, near an unknown island.
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I would fain die a dry death.
Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground.
Full fathom five thy father lies;
Of his bones are coral made;
Those are pearls that were his eyes:
Nothing of him that doth fade
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange.
Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me
From mine own library with volumes that
I prize above my dukedom.
The fringed curtains of thine eye advance.
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The Tempest is thought by many to be Shakespeare's greatest and most perfect play. When the magician Prospero deliberately summons a storm to overcome his enemy King Alonso of Naples ship the passengers are washed ashore on a fantastical island. Prospero manipulates the king, his entourage, apparitions and fiends as he schemes revenge on the hapless Alonso. Prospero's daughter and the King's son Ferdinand fall in love and their fraught lover provides the catalyst for their fathers' reconciliation, contrition and clemency.

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