The Tempest: Arden Performance Editions

by William Shakespeare, Miranda Fay Thomas (Editor), Abigail Rokison-Woodall (Editor), Michael Dobson (Editor), Simon Russell Beale (Editor)

Overview

Arden Performance Editions are ideal for anyone engaging with a Shakespeare play in performance. With clear facing-page notes giving definitions of words, easily accessible information about key textual variants, lineation, metrical ambiguities and pronunciation, each edition has been developed to open the play's possibilities and meanings to actors and students.

Each edition offers:
-Facing-page notes
-Short, clear definitions of words
-Easily accessible information about key textual variants
-Notes on pronunciation of difficult names and unfamiliar words
-An easy-to-read layout
-Space to write notes
-A short introduction to the play

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781350133952
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	10/07/2021
Series:	Arden Performance Editions
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	5.45(w) x 8.45(h) x 0.55(d)

About the Author

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) was an English dramatist, poet, and actor, generally regarded as the greatest playwright of all time.

Miranda Fay Thomas is Assistant Professor in Theatre and Performance at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. They are the author of Shakespeare's Body Language: Shaming Gestures and Gender Politics on the Renaissance Stage (the Arden Shakespeare, 2019) and editor of The Tempest (Arden Performance Editions, 2021).

Dr Abigail Rokison-Woodall is Lecturer in Shakespeare and Theatre, The Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon, UK and was formerly a professional actor.

Michael Dobson is an award-winning game designer and co-author of Fox on the Rhine and Fox at the Front. He served as a member of the team that built the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum.

Sir Simon Russell Beale is the leading Shakespearean actor of his generation, having played King Lear, Hamlet, Macbeth, Malvolio, Timon of Athens, Benedick, Falstaff, Prospero and Richard II.

Date of Death:

2018

Place of Birth:

Stratford-upon-Avon, United Kingdom

Place of Death:

Stratford-upon-Avon, United Kingdom

Table of Contents

Introduction
The Tempest
Longer Notes

Editorial Reviews

We've been working from the Arden Performance Edition on our latest production of The Tempest. Its clarity, layout and robustness make it perfect for actors and creatives to work from. Eminently playable, clear and practical, it's the ideal rehearsal resource.” —Sean Holmes, Shakespeare's Globe

From the Publisher