The Tempest Home Page

This is the Home Page for The Tempest. The page collects information about this work from across our site. Here you will find links to our edition; where available, you will also find links to graphic facsimiles of the books in which it was first published, a list of performances, relevant pages in the section on Shakespeare's Life and Times, and links to relevant sites on the Internet.

• Title Page
  • The Tempest (Modern)
    
  • The Tempest (Folio 1, 1623)
    

List of book facsimiles containing the play The Tempest

• First Folio (1623)
  Brandeis University copy from Brandeis University Library
• First Folio (1623)
  New South Wales copy from State Library of New South Wales
• Second Folio (1632)
  New South Wales copy from State Library of New South Wales
• Third Folio (1664)
  New South Wales copy from State Library of New South Wales
• Fourth Folio (1685)
  New South Wales copy from State Library of New South Wales

Pages from the "Life and Times" that discuss The Tempest

• The Tempest
  
• The unities in The Tempest
  
• Prospero, the magus, and Shakespeare
  
• Caliban and colonization
  
• Ferdinand and Miranda, the young lovers
  
• Tricks of the trade: issues of staging
  
• Music and masque
  

List of performances related to The Tempest

• The Tempest (1952, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, USA)
• The Tempest (1969, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, USA)
• La tempesta (1981, Carlo Battistoni, Italy)
• Tempest (1939, GB)
• The Tempest (1956, GB)
• The Tempest (1960, George Schaefer, USA)
• The Tempest (1968, Basil Coleman, GB)
• The Tempest (1973, USA)
• The Tempest (1979, John Gorrie, GB)
• The Stuff of Dreams (1979, John Carroll, USA)
• The Tempest (1964, USA)
• Peter Brook: The Tempest (1968, Peter Brook, France)
• The Tempest (1980, Audrey E. Stanley, USA)
• The Tempest (1980, David Wilson, GB)
• The Tempest (1985, William Woodman, USA)
• The Tempest (1985, Mark Lamos, USA)
• Shakespeare: The Tempest, IV (1985, GB)
• The Tempest (1986, Julie Taymor, USA)
• The Tempest (1986, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, USA)
• The Tempest: by William Shakespeare, as seen through the eyes of Derek Jarman (1980, Derek Jarman, GB)
• 86 more performances...

Summary list of artifacts related to the play The Tempest

• illustration artifacts (1)

Relevant links to other sites on the web

• The Tempest Penguin Classics Teachers' Guide
  McGlinn, James E. and Jeanne M. McGlinn. "Teachers' Guides: The Tempest: William Shakespeare." Penguin Classics Online. London: Penguin Books, 1995-2006.
• Another Island, Another Story: A source for Shakespeare's The Tempest
  Bilton, Peter. "Another island, Another Story: A source for Shakespeare's The Tempest." Renaissance Forum 5.1 (2000). Bilton suggests that The Enamoured Diana by Gil Polo was Shakespeare's inspiration for The Tempest:
• National and Colonial Education in Shakespeare's The Tempest
  Carey-Webb, Allen. "National and Colonial Education in Shakespeare's The Tempest." Early Modern Literary Studies 5.1 (May, 1999): 3.1-39. Approaches the schooling and teaching practices in The Tempest in terms of sixteenth-century politics and colonial discourses:
• Dating The Tempest
  Kathman, David. "Dating The Tempest." The Shakespeare Authorship Page. Eds. David Kathman and Terry Ross. Kathman uses The Tempest, dated after the death of the Earl of Oxford, to challenge the claim that the Earl of Oxford wrote Shakespeare's plays:
• Shakespeare Behind Bars
  Director Hank Rogerson makes a revelatory trip into a maximum-security prison, where we embark on a year-long journey with the Shakespeare Behind Bars theatre troupe-comprised of Luther Luckett inmates and led by volunteer program director Curt Tofteland. The prisoners cast themselves in roles reflecting their personal history and fate. Their individual stories, including information about their heinous crimes, are interwoven with the plot of The Tempest. The inmates delve deeply into the characters they portray, confronting their personal demons: