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Tempest Paperback - 1994
by Shakespeare, William
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- Title Tempest
- Author Shakespeare, William
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Everyman
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 256
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Orion Publishing Group, London
- Publication date June 1994
- Bookseller's Inventory # 0460874551.G
- ISBN 9780460874557 / 0460874551
- Weight 0.46 lbs (0.21 kg)
- Dimensions 7.68 x 5.52 x 0.77 in (19.51 x 14.02 x 1.96 cm)
- Reading level 610
- Category Plays / Drama
- Dewey Decimal Code 822.33
- Quantity available 1
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The Tempest is one of Shakespeare’s last solo-written plays. This tragedy tells the story of an exiled ruler who uses magic to restore his daughter to power and argues that the powerful must show mercy. First performed in 1611, The Tempest has been put to varied interpretations, from those that see it as a fable of art and creation, with Prospero representing Shakespeare, and Prospero's renunciation of magic signaling Shakespeare's farewell to the stage, to interpretations that consider it an allegory of Europeans colonizing foreign lands.
O wonder!
How many goodly creatures are there here!
How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world
That has such people in ’t! (V.i.)
O wonder!
How many goodly creatures are there here!
How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world
That has such people in ’t! (V.i.)
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