<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Shakespeare's valedictory play is also one of his most poetical and magical. The story involves the spirit Ariel, the savage Caliban, and Prospero, the banished Duke of Milan, now a wizard living on a remote island who uses his magic to shipwreck a party of ex-compatriots.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"Two of the bard's heavy dramas join Yale's wonderful <i>Annotated Shakespeare</i> series. Along with a heavily annotated text, each volume includes a scholarly introduction plus notes on the annotations. All that for the price of a Happy Meal: how can you go wrong?"--<i>Library Journal</i> (refers to <i>Henry the Fourth, Part 1 & The Tempest</i>)</p> <p/><p>"Two of the bard's heavy dramas join Yale's wonderful <i>Annotated Shakespeare</i> series. . . . [How] can you go wrong?"--<i>Library Journal</i></p> <p/>Received a rating of Outstanding from the 2007 University Press Books Committee <p/> <br><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Burton Raffel</b> is Distinguished Professor of Arts and Humanities Emeritus and professor of English emeritus, University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Among his many edited and translated publications are <i>Poems and Prose from the Old English, Cligès, Lancelot, Perceval, Erec and Enide, </i>and<i> Yvain, </i>all published by Yale University Press. <b>Harold Bloom</b>, Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University and Berg Professor of English at New York University, is the author of many books, <i> </i>including<i> The Western Canon, Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human, </i>and <i>Where Shall Wisdom Be Found?</i>
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