The Tempest presents some of Shakespeare's most insightful meditations on the cycle of life--ending and beginning, death and regeneration, bondage and freedom. This Norton Critical
Edition is based on the First Folio text and is accompanied by explanatory annotations. ��ources and Contexts��offers a rich collection of documents on the play's central themes--magic and
witchcraft, politics and religion, geography and travel. Writers include Ovid, Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Gabriel Naud�穢, Michel de Montaigne, and William Strachey. ��riticism��collects
eighteen responses to The Tempest, from John Dryden and Samuel Taylor Coleridge to Stephen Orgel and Leah Marcus. ��ewritings and Appropriations��includes creative reactions to The
Tempest, by playwrights, filmmakers, and poets, among them H.D., Peter Greenaway, and Ted Hughes.
