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The Tempest': Shakespeare in Performance situates the play's 400-year performance history within ever-changing cultural contexts, and supplements historical analysis of particular productions with information about contemporary appropriations and adaptations. -- .

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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
List of illustrations
Introduction
1. The Dryden-Davenant Tempest
2. The Tempest in pictures
3. The evolutionary Caliban
4. Prospero after Freud
5. Postcolonial Tempests
6. The Tempest in postwar Europe
7. Two Japanese Tempests
8. The Tempest on film and television
9. Experimental Tempests
Epilogue
List of productions
Bibliography
Index

The Tempest

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      Publisher: Manchester University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 7/1/2015 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780719073137, 978-0719073137
      ISBN10: 0719073138

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      The Tempest': Shakespeare in Performance situates the play's 400-year performance history within ever-changing cultural contexts, and supplements historical analysis of particular productions with information about contemporary appropriations and adaptations. -- .

      Trade Review

      '[The Tempest] is a good example of what we need for every Shakespeare play'
      Chronique

      -- .

      Table of Contents

      Acknowledgments
      List of illustrations
      Introduction
      1. The Dryden-Davenant Tempest
      2. The Tempest in pictures
      3. The evolutionary Caliban
      4. Prospero after Freud
      5. Postcolonial Tempests
      6. The Tempest in postwar Europe
      7. Two Japanese Tempests
      8. The Tempest on film and television
      9. Experimental Tempests
      Epilogue
      List of productions
      Bibliography
      Index

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