For many, The Tempest constitutes William Shakespeare's farewell to the stage. From its beginning, the play seems to foreshadow a powerful movement of retreat. This play stands as one of the most evocative and moving explorations of human possibilities and limits.

The title, William Shakespeare’s The Tempest, part of Chelsea House Publishers’ Modern Critical Interpretations series, presents the most important 20th-century criticism on William Shakespeare’s The Tempest through extracts of critical essays by well-known literary critics. This collection of criticism also features a short biography on William Shakespeare, a chronology of the author’s life, and an introductory essay written by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University.

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