The Tempest (Dover Thrift Editions)
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About the Author "He was not of an age, but for all time," declared Ben Jonson of his contemporary William Shakespeare (1564–1616). Jonson's praise is especially prescient, since at the turn of the 17th century Shakespeare was but one of many popular London playwrights and none of his dramas were printed in his lifetime. The reason so many of his works survive is because two of his actor friends, with the assistance of Jonson, assembled and published the First Folio edition of 1623. Read more
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A barren island lost in the sea, a harsh prison, is the place in which Shakespeare creates a world rich in mythology, nobility and revenge. A revenge that I thought it was going to end in a certain way but ended in another way in a human and natural ending. It is so exciting to read, in its short extension the words convey much information charged with intense emotions, as if it were an old nordic saga. For example Prospero is always asking in a salty way if he is being heard and understood, it is evident he has been terribly wronged in the past, and that it was due to his own innocence of character, he is not going to allow it to happen again. And so with all the characters, the more we get to know of them the more complex they are. The magic is superb, Shakespeare is a genius in which this presence of magic doesn't overpower the story (as it happens with many cinema directors that sacrifice the plot relying instead in CGI) instead it gives it a timeless taste, a classic taste. Think in his contemporary Cervantes for example, the Don Quixote is glorious but, as it is set in a country under the strict social presence of the Catholic Church (I say it in a respectful way, I understand in those years the Church had pressure to avoid a loss of members) he could write about fantasy only in a mocking way and even at the beginning a priest burns most of the fantasy books for being not correct. In "The Tempest" there is not judgement of the fantasy, the world seems so real in the way the supernatural is accepted as religious persons accept the idea of miracles in their lives. I don't like theater, I would not like to see the descriptions of magical deeds of this story through imitations from a theater, nor the vast feelings that the island conveys in me to a small scenery. Shakespeare maybe is my best discovery of the year and I am happy to have him with his own words fueling my imagination to astonishing heights.About the AmazonClassics Edition is perfect, I don't want any other edition that could be spoiled with introductions by intellectuals that tend to think the reader already know the book or, even worse, that we are interested in their opinions about themselves. The AmazonClassics Edition has the text in its purity, with a professional formatting and a modern typography that makes it an example of a proper kindle edition. So if you choose this edition possibly you are choosing the best edition available.
