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  • Lo mejor de Shakespeare

  • No he tenido la suerte de ver esta obra representada, pero leerla es una delicia. Es la obra más completa de Shakespeare: hay tragedia, comedia, obras dentro de obras, un principio impactante y un final grácil, personajes graciosos y crueles asesinos...
    Hay quien la considera fallida por ser im ... Continue

    No he tenido la suerte de ver esta obra representada, pero leerla es una delicia. Es la obra más completa de Shakespeare: hay tragedia, comedia, obras dentro de obras, un principio impactante y un final grácil, personajes graciosos y crueles asesinos...
    Hay quien la considera fallida por ser imposible encuadrarla dentro de un sólo género. Yo pienso que eso le añade una gran riqueza.

    

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• ― Lord Henry said on Jul 14, 2008 about the Paperback edition| Add your feedback

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  • In time this has become my favourite play of his, to the extent that I'd rather read it for the 4th/5th time than pick up a fresh one.
    Quite short, very dense.
    Readings usually underline the colonial aspects of the play, which is only good if you're teaching EFL to a roomful of teens. Continue

    In time this has become my favourite play of his, to the extent that I'd rather read it for the 4th/5th time than pick up a fresh one.
    Quite short, very dense.
    Readings usually underline the colonial aspects of the play, which is only good if you're teaching EFL to a roomful of teens.
    More interesting is obviously the discourse on creation, art-making, poiesis.
    Prospero as the puppet-master may remind one of the duke in Measure for Measure.
    Fantastic out-at-sea opening.
    This is also his only play (along with MND, ça va sans dire) to feature magic&fairies, which is reason enough as far as I'm concerned.

    

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• ― il mio minotauro (blackswan) said on Sep 25, 2009 about the Paperback edition| Add your feedback

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  • Our revels now are ended. These our actors,
    As I foretold you, were all spirits, and
    Are melted into air, into thin air:
    And like the baseless fabric of this vision,
    The cloud-capp'd tow'rs, the gorgeous palaces,
    The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
    Yea, all whic ... Continue

    Our revels now are ended. These our actors,
    As I foretold you, were all spirits, and
    Are melted into air, into thin air:
    And like the baseless fabric of this vision,
    The cloud-capp'd tow'rs, the gorgeous palaces,
    The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
    Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve,
    And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
    Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff
    As dreams are made on; and our little life
    Is rounded with a sleep.

    

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• ― Claudia (25271) said on Aug 25, 2009 about the Mass Market Paperback edition| Add your feedback

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  • A very humorous comedy.

    

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• ― Monetwan said on Aug 4, 2009 about the Paperback edition| Add your feedback

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  • High School

  • This was another one of Shakespeare's plays that I read just because I felt like it. I was a junior in high school. This is my second favorite of all the plays I've read by Shakespeare.

    

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• ― Ifonearth said on Jan 31, 2009 about the Mass Market Paperback edition| Add your feedback

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  • I chose this one because it has so much background material in it. After reading this, and texts like those about the Bermuda shipwreck, I understood Prospero's Books much better.

    

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• ― xpro said on May 31, 2008 | Add your feedback

The Tempest has long dazzled readers and audiences with its intricate blend of magic, music, humour, intrigue and tenderness, its vibrant but ambiguous central characters. As Virginia and Alden Vaughan show, in their wide-ranging new edition of this established favourite, such antithetical extremes exemplify the play?s endlessly arguable nature, its appeal to diverse eras and cultures. The Vaughans situate The Tempest at the centre of changing cultural attitudes towards colonialism, power politics and patriarchal hierarchies, and demonstrate how the play both shaped and reflected those changing attitudes. Informed by the concerns of a post-colonial international community, their edition emphasizes the play's world-wide cultural appropriation, and includes an extensive discussion of the play's after-life as well as an appendix of selected appropriations. The interdisciplinary editorial approach contributes a distinctively blended cultural and historical focus. ?The Vaughans have provided a valuable new edition of the play, one whose expanded contextualisation, especially, will contribute to The Tempest?s lively and varied afterlife both within and beyond the classroom.? Barbara Fuchs, University of Washington, Seattle, Shakespeare Quarterly

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