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The Tempest is a play by William Shakespeare, probably written in 1610–1611, and thought to be one of the last plays that he wrote alone.
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An Introduction to This Text: The Tempest. By Barbara Mowat and Paul Werstine. Editors of the Folger Shakespeare Library Editions. The Tempest was first printed in the 1623 collection of Shakespeare’s plays now known as the First Folio.
The Tempest was written by William Shakespeare between 1610-1611. Many critics and historians believe it to be one of the last plays he wrote alone. For centuries The Tempest was somewhat disregarded and viewed as an inferior piece compared to others in Shakespeare's collections.
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Learn what Shakespeare has to say on the subject of life in The Tempest and other plays: Shakespeare Quotes on Life. A complete summary of William Shakespeare's Play, The Tempest. Find out more about the shipwreck, the magical island and the torment of an old man and his slaves.
Sep 9, 2017 · Who wrote The Tempest? As we reach “the end” of the Project, we ask of this play what we’ve asked of just about all the plays: who wrote The Tempest? Well, not to put too sarcastic a point on this: William Shakespeare. This is the last–chronologically speaking–of the purely Shakespeare plays.
Author William Shakespeare. Type of Work Play. Genre Comedy, Romance. Language Elizabethan English. Time and place written 1610–1611; England. Date of first publication 1623. Publisher Isaac Jaggard and Edward Blount. In-depth Facts: Tone Dreamy, mysterious, magical. Setting (time) The Renaissance.
But Shakespeare also wrote his plays as literature, as texts to be read as well as staged. His plays were printed in quarto editions throughout his lifetime; and in 1623, seven years after he died, The Tempest was published as the first play in a handsome folio edition of his works, Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies ...
