Tempest (1918) Yale

by William Shakespeare

For other versions of this work, see Tempest (Shakespeare).

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THE TEMPEST

 

EDITED BY
CHAUNCEY B. TINKER

 

 

NEW HAVEN · YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS
LONDON · HUMPHREY MILFORD
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS · MCMXXII

 

Copyright, 1918
By Yale University Press

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First published, August, 1918
Second printing, February, 1922

 

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS
	PAGE
The Text	1
Act I	1
Act II	25
Act III	45
Act IV	59
Act V	70
Epilogue	83
Notes	84
Appendix A. Sources of the Play	89
Appendix B. The History of the Play	92
Appendix C. Suggestions for Collateral Reading	94
Appendix D. The Text of the Present Edition	95
Index of Words Glossed	97

 

The facsimile opposite represents the title-page of the 1623 Folio edition of Shakespeare’s plays, in which 'The Tempest' occupies first place. The photograph is made from the Elizabethan Club copy. On the page facing the title the Folio has the following note, signed with Ben Jonson's initials:—

 

'To the Reader.
This Figure, that thou here seest put,
It was for gentle Shakespeare cut:
Wherein the Grauer had a strife
with Nature, to out-doo the life:
O, could he but haue drawne his wit
As well in brasse, as he hath hit
His face, the Print would then surpasse
All, that was euer writ in brasse.
But, since he cannot, Reader, looke
Not on his Picture, but his Booke.

B. I.'

 

 

THE YALE SHAKESPEARE

 

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Edited by

Wilbur L. CrossTucker Brooke

Willard Higley Durham

 

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Published under the Direction

of the

Department of English, Yale University,

on the Fund

Given to the Yale University Press in 1917

by the Members of the

Kingsley Trust Association

To Commemorate the Seventy-Fifth Anniversary

of the Founding of the Society