基本信息出版社：Wordsworth Editions Ltd
页码：128 页
出版日期：1994年05月
ISBN：185326203X
条形码：9781853262036
版本：1994-05-07
装帧：平装
开本：20开 Pages Per Sheet
丛书名：Wordsworth Classics
外文书名：暴风雨

内容简介 Book Description
The widely acclaimed Oxford School Shakespeare series offers students the perfect introduction to Shakespeare's plays. THE TEMPEST, probably written around 1611, dramatizes Prospero's plight to escape banishment to a lonely island by his brother Antonio. Illustrated.

Full of wisdom, conspiracy, humour and wit the plot concerns the restoration of the philosopher-king to his rightful palace. Prospero overthrows his enemies, his daughter Miranda achieves felicity and the monster Caliban is tamed reflecting the Aristotelian unity of the play.

Amazon.co.uk Review
One of Shakespeare's most famous but also enigmatic plays, for many years the story of Prospero's exile from his native Milan, and life with his daughter Miranda on an unnamed island in the Mediterranean, was seen as an autobiographical dramatisation of Shakespeare's departure from the London stage. The Epilogue, spoken by Prospero, claims that "now my charms are all o'erthrown", appeared to reflect Shakespeare's own renunciation of his magical dramatic powers as he retired to Stratford. But The Tempest is far more than this, as recent commentators have pointed out. The dramatic action observes the classical unities of time, place and action, as Prospero uses his "rough magic" to lure his wicked usurping brother, Antonio, and King Alonso of Naples to his island retreat to torment them before engineering his return to Milan.

However, the play is full of extraordinary anomalies and fantastic interludes, including Gonzalo's fantasy of a utopian commonwealth, Prospero's magical servant Ariel, and the "poisonous slave" Caliban. The creation of Caliban has particularly fascinated critics, who have noticed in his creation a colonial dimension to the play. In this respect Caliban can be seen as an American Indian or African slave, who articulates a particularly powerful strain of anti-colonial sentiment, telling Prospero that "this island's mine, by Sycorax my mother,/ Which thou tak'st from me". This has led to an intense reassessment of the play from a post-colonial perspective, as critics and historians have debated the extent to which the play endorses or criticises early English colonial expansion.
　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　--Jerry Brotton

Book Dimension :
length: (cm)19.8 　　　 　　　　　 　　　　　 width:(cm)12.6