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The Tempest

Autor William Shakespeare Editat de John Mahon, John Mucciolo, James H. Lake
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en Limba Engleză Paperback – 15 mar 2019

Considerăm că introducerea copiilor și adolescenților în universul lui William Shakespeare este un pas esențial în dezvoltarea gândirii critice și a empatiei. Tema centrală a piesei The Tempest — pierderea și regăsirea puterii într-un cadru exotic — oferă tinerilor cititori o perspectivă fascinantă asupra modului în care greșelile trecutului pot fi îndreptate prin iertare, nu prin răzbunare. Situația lui Prospero, un duce trădat care își folosește exilul pentru a stăpâni forțele naturii, rezonează cu dorința fiecărui tânăr de a deține controlul asupra propriului destin.

Subliniem valoarea acestei ediții din seria Collins Classroom Classics, care transformă o lectură complexă într-o experiență accesibilă. Spre deosebire de Twelfth Night, unde accentul cade pe confuziile comice de identitate, sau Othello, care explorează profunzimile distructive ale geloziei, The Tempest reușește să educe și să captiveze fără a fi didactică, oferind un echilibru între spectacolul magic și dilemele etice. Structura cărții este remarcabilă: după textul piesei, cititorul găsește o secțiune de apendice ce include texte de Michel de Montaigne sau Ovid, oferind contextul istoric necesar pentru a înțelege viziunea autorului despre „omul natural” și civilizație.

Notăm cu interes modul în care această operă se raportează la alte lucrări ale „Bardului”. Dacă în Macbeth ambiția duce la o spirală a violenței, aici Prospero alege să-și rupă bagheta magică și să se reconcilieze cu inamicii săi. Este o lectură fundamentală care, prin ritmul său alert și personajele memorabile precum spiritul Ariel sau sălbaticul Caliban, facilitează tranziția către literatura clasică.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781585109036
ISBN-10: 1585109037
Pagini: 144
Ilustrații: B-W photos throughout
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 mm
Greutate: 0.18 kg
Editura: Hackett Publishing Company,Inc
Colecția Focus
Locul publicării:United States

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această ediție elevilor și părinților care doresc să abordeze literatura engleză într-un mod structurat. The Tempest nu este doar o piesă de teatru, ci un exercițiu de vocabular și analiză culturală. Cititorul câștigă o înțelegere profundă a naturii umane și a puterii de a ierta, totul într-un format paperback ușor de parcurs, îmbogățit cu note explicative esențiale pentru examene sau lectură de plăcere.


Despre autor

William Shakespeare (1564–1616), cunoscut drept „Bardul de pe Avon”, este considerat cel mai mare dramaturg al lumii. Opera sa, tradusă în toate limbile majore, continuă să fie fundamentul teatrului modern. Născut în Stratford-upon-Avon, Shakespeare a creat o moștenire impresionantă de 39 de piese și 154 de sonete. The Tempest ocupă un loc special în bibliografia sa, fiind considerată piesa sa de „adio”, unde figura magicianului Prospero este adesea interpretată ca un alter-ego al dramaturgului care își ia rămas bun de la scenă. Stilul său combină profunzimea filozofică cu o măiestrie lingvistică inegalabilă.


Descriere

George Lyman Kittredge's perceptive editions have endured in part because of his eclecticism, his diversity of interests, and his wide-ranging accomplishments—all of which are reflected in the valuable notes in each volume. The plays in the New Kittredge Shakespeare series retain the original Kittredge notes and introductions, changed or augmented only when some modernization seems necessary. These new editions also include introductory essays by contemporary editors, notes on the plays as they have been performed on stage and film, and additional student materials.

Recenzii

"Kittredge's landmark edition appears now with an insightful and informative introduction to the play, its background and its history on stage and screen, together with excellent suggestions for reading it with performance in mind and commentary on significant productions. I recommend it warmly to readers who are already familiar with the play, as well as to those approaching it for the first time."
—Russell Jackson, Professor Emeritus of Drama, University of Birmingham
“An inspired edition of Shakespeare's late masterpiece, larded with riches that are at once accessible and challenging to students of The Tempest. These riches include a masterful introduction that sets forth major and minor characters in all their complexity; great page-for-page textual and performance notes that aptly explain the play’s obscurities and showcase the many ways given scenes and speeches have been performed; an enlightening guide to the reading experience—"How to Read the Play as Performance;" and brilliant questions for thought and discussion. Mahon and Mucciolo are the perfect guides through this most wondrous and perplexing play."
—Laury Magnus, Professor of Humanities, U.S. Merchant Marine Academy

Notă biografică

William Shakespeare (bapt. 26 April 1564 - 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's greatest dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" (or simply "the Bard"). His extant works, including collaborations, consist of some 39 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and a few other verses, some of uncertain authorship. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright. They also continue to be studied and reinterpreted. Shakespeare was born and raised in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire. At the age of 18, he married Anne Hathaway, with whom he had three children: Susanna and twins Hamnet and Judith. Sometime between 1585 and 1592, he began a successful career in London as an actor, writer, and part-owner of a playing company called the Lord Chamberlain's Men, later known as the King's Men. At age 49 (around 1613), he appears to have retired to Stratford, where he died three years later. Few records of Shakespeare's private life survive; this has stimulated considerable speculation about such matters as his physical appearance, his sexuality, his religious beliefs, and whether the works attributed to him were written by others. Shakespeare produced most of his known works between 1589 and 1613.His early plays were primarily comedies and histories and are regarded as some of the best work produced in these genres. Until about 1608, he wrote mainly tragedies, among them Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth, all considered to be among the finest works in the English language. In the last phase of his life, he wrote tragicomedies (also known as romances) and collaborated with other playwrights. Many of Shakespeare's plays were published in editions of varying quality and accuracy in his lifetime. However, in 1623, two fellow actors and friends of Shakespeare's, John Heminges and Henry Condell, published a more definitive text known as the First Folio, a posthumous collected edition of Shakespeare's dramatic works that included all but two of his plays. The volume was prefaced with a poem by Ben Jonson, in which Jonson presciently hails Shakespeare in a now-famous quote as "not of an age, but for all time".

Cuprins

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Shakespeare’s Life
Shakespeare’s Theater
William Shakespeare and The Tempest: A Brief Chronology
A Note on the Text

The Tempest
Appendix A
From Aristotle, Politics (fourth century BCE)
Appendix B
From Ovid, Metamorphoses (8 CE)
Appendix C
From Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda, The Second Democrate; or, The Just Causes of the War against the Indians (1547)
Appendix D
From Bartolomé de las Casas, A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies (1552)
Appendix E
From Michel de Montaigne, “Of the Cannibals” (1578–80)
Appendix F
From William Strachey, A True Reportory of the Wracke (1610)
Appendix G
From John Dryden and William Davenant, The Tempest; or, The Enchanted Island (1670)
Works Cited and Select Bibliography

Caracteristici

This is the first edition of The Tempest to be developed by and for the RSC, the world's leading Shakespeare theatre company and it includes unique material to help the reader understand and enjoy Shakespeare on the stage as well as on the page
Illustrated with photographs of classic and unusual performances
Outstanding on-page notes which explain words and phrases unfamiliar to a modern audience, including the slang, political references and bawdy humour often ignored or censored in competing editions
Includes scene-by-scene summary, offering an easily understandable way into the play
Completely new introduction by Jonathan Bate, exploring the text and critical debates around it
Summary of the play's performance history at the RSC and elsewhere
Interviews with important Shakespearean directors Peter Brook, Sam Mendes and Rupert Goold discussing key productions at the RSC