The Tempest is one of the most suggestive, yet most elusive of all Shakespeare's plays, and has provoked a wide range of critical interpretation. It is a magical romance, yet deeply and problematically embedded in seventeenth-century debates about authority and power. David Lindley's Introduction and commentary focus upon contemporary texts, attending to the implications of Prospero's magic, his political and paternal ambitions, and the controversial issue of his 'colonialist' control of Caliban. The Tempest was also Shakespeare's response to the new opportunities offered by the Blackfriars theatre, and careful attention is given to the play's dramatic form, stage-craft, and use of music and spectacle, to demonstrate its uniquely experimental nature.
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El mercader de Venecia pertenece al grupo de las llamadas "comedias románticas" de William Shakespeare. En ellas, con el amor como motor principal de la acción, el protagonista alcanza la solución feliz en un mundo alternativo de fantasia Belmont, en El mercader de Venecia , no sin antes haber tenido que enfrentarse a obstaculos materiales y humanos, estos ultimos personificados en seres anticomicos y malvados. Pero la variedad de tonos de estas comedias no permite encerrarlas en una sola formula dramatica.
