The Tempest, by William Shakespeare, is part of the Barnes & Noble Shakespeareseries. This unique series features newly edited texts prepared by leading scholars from America and Great Britain, in collaboration with one of the world's foremost Shakespeare authorities, David Scott Kastanof Columbia University. Together they have produced texts as faithful as possible to those that Shakespeare wrote. Each volume in the Barnes & Noble Shakespeareincludes: An extraordinary blend of visual spectacle, story, and poetry, The Tempestis Shakespeare's dramatic meditation on the art of power. The editor, Gordon McMullan, illuminates the play by putting it in the context of early modern writings on colonization and political conflict.