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The last play (1611) completed by Shakespeare before he retired from active connection with the theater to spend the remainder of his life in leisure in his native town of Stratford-on-Avon. The main thread of the plot of the drama seems to have been some folk-tale of a magician and his daughter, which, in the precise form in which Shakespeare knew it, has not been recovered. First Edition (1968)b General Editor: Anne Barton & T.J.B. Spencer Associate Editor: Stanley Wells Used by the RSC (Royal Shakespeare Company) ISBN: 0140707131 186 pages (including two song transcriptions)
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Part of The New Penguin Shakespeare series, this text looks at The Tempest with an introduction, a list of further reading, commentary and a short account of the textual problems of the play. The seri...
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