This respected edition of Shakespeare’s play contains the full text, extensive notes and supplementary material written for school use.
Chapters include:
The Theatre in Shakespeare’s day
Shakespeare’s Life and Times
Money in Shakespeare’s Day
Introduction to the Play
Characters, Text and Notes
Also included is a reading list and an index of Themes
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However, the play is full of extraordinary anomalies and fantastic interludes, including Gonzalo's fantasy of a utopian commonwealth, Prospero's magical servant Ariel, and the "poisonous slave" Caliban. The creation of Caliban has particularly fascinated critics, who have noticed in his creation a colonial dimension to the play. In this respect Caliban can be seen as an American Indian or African slave, who articulates a particularly powerful strain of anti-colonial sentiment, telling Prospero that "this island's mine, by Sycorax my mother,/ Which thou tak'st from me". This has led to an intense reassessment of the play from a post-colonial perspective, as critics and historians have debated the extent to which the play endorses or criticises early English colonial expansion. --Jerry Brotton
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