List of abbreviations and conventions; Preface to the second edition; Introduction; Note on the text; List of characters; The play; Textual analysis; Appendix 1. The songs; Appendix 2. Parallel passages from Virgil and Ovid; Appendix 3. And others: casting the play; Reading list.
For this second edition David Lindley has revised his introduction and added a new section.
Review of the first edition: 'If you are looking for a model
edition - by which I mean one that is concerned to honour the text
and to explain the processes involved in editing - this is it. If I
were ever again to undertake the editing of a Shakespeare play, I
would keep Lindley's edition of The Tempest open beside me.' Peter
Thompson
Review of the first edition: 'David Lindley's [The] Tempest is the
best edition on the market and the paperback is a snip.' Studies in
Theatre and Performance
Review of the first edition: 'Lindley aims both to represent and to
explain the range of readings given the play in its theatrical and
critical afterlives. His edition meets the high standards of the
series in an exemplary manner, offering an especially fine
introduction that focuses on the elusiveness of The Tempest, a
feature that has made it central to late-twentieth-century
criticism.' Barbara Hodgdon, Studies in English Literature
Review of the first edition: 'David Lindley's edition of The
Tempest is easily the most outstanding version of this ostensibly
straightforward yet hugely teasing play produced over the last
thirty years. Its precise and scrupulous commentary notes are
careful to the variety of ways the text can be spoken on stage. Its
notes on the music and songs are admirably evocative, and its
economical account of the huge range of critical views will send
thousands of readers out in fruitful chases after the play's own
multitudinous interests.' Andrew Gurr, editor, New Variorum
'Tempest'
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