The Tempest (Shakespeare in Production)

About this book

This edition of The Tempest is the first dedicated to its stage history. Dymkowski examines four centuries of mainstream regional and fringe productions in Britain nineteenth- and twentieth-century American stagings and recent Australian Canadian French Italian and Japanese productions. She analyzes the cultural significance of changes in theatrical representation eg. when and why Caliban began to be represented by a black actor and Ariel became a mans role rather than a womans. The commentary annotates each line of the play with details about acting setting textual alteration and contemporary reception.