Each title features: - A selection of the best criticism on the play through the centuries- Introductory essays on the development of criticism on the play in each century- A brief biography of Shakespeare- A plot synopsis, list of characters, and analysis of several key passages- An introduction by Harold Bloom.
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Caliban’s cowardice is very funny, but political correctness pompously demands that we see him as a heroic West Indian freedom-fighter! And poor Prospero, badgered stage-manager (as Northrop Frye saw)... Caliban’s cowardice is very funny, but political correctness pompously demands that we see him as a heroic West Indian freedom-fighter! And poor Prospero, badgered stage-manager (as Northrop Frye saw), is now a rapacious colonialist. So badly do we read that few apprehend the rich ironies of Prospero, as time-haunted a Shakespearean protagonist as (展开)