The Everyman Shakespeare is the most authoritative, up-to-date paperback edition of the plays and poems.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (1564-1616) wrote 37 plays. King Lear and Macbeth are widely considered his finest and most popular. They are, perhaps, the most frequently produced works on the planet.
List of Illustrations
p. ix
Introduction
Beginnings and Issues
First Appearances
p. 1
The Genre
p. 4
Readings and Interpretations
p. 5
Wives and Mothers
p. 18
Magic
p. 20
Caliban
p. 23
Suitors and Rapists
p. 28
The Renaissance Political Context
Political Marriages
p. 30
Utopia and the New World
p. 31
Authority
p. 36
Epic and History
Italy and Carthage
p. 39
The Masque
Jacobean Court Spectacles
p. 43
The Masque as Image and Symbol
p. 47
Renunciation and Resolution
p. 50
Text and Date
The Text
p. 56
The Date
p. 62
The Play on the Stage
p. 64
Editorial Procedures
p. 89
Abbreviations and References
p. 89
The Tempest
p. 93
The Seamanship of Act I, Scene I
p. 207
The Strachey Letter
p. 209
The Music
p. 220
Florio's Montaigne
p. 227
'Of the Cannibals'
p. 227
From 'Of Cruelty'
p. 238
Medea's Incantation
p. 239
From Ovid, Metamorphoses, vii
p. 239
From The Fifteen Books of P. Ovidius Naso, Entitled Metamorphosis, translated...by Arthur Golding (1567)
p. 240
Lineation
p. 242
Index
p. 245
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