Any Shakespeare experts/fans in the house? I gotta question for y'all...

[WritingIsMyReligion]

Is The Tempest really a fairly short play? I have a version here that, not including all the end notes and whatever, is 91 small (approx. 4" x 6.5") pages long. It's got five acts, epilogue, etc., but I'm wondering if it's been abridged. It's part of The Yale Shakespeare collection, and was published a long time ago--in 1955.

This is a pic of a book from the collection--my book looks exactly like this, only thinner, because this is a different play.



If anyone could help me out, that would be great--I'm just wondering if there's the possibility that this book has been abridged. I need to read it for school, so I really need the full version if I can get it. If it helps, I read Romeo and Juliet from this same collection, and it was not abridged.

I hope it's not abridged, simply because I need to read a quarter of it by Wednesday, and a quarter of this book really isn't a lot. :evilgrin:

Thanks in advance....

WIMR ;)

[WritingIsMyReligion]

1. Kick.

:kick:

[mduffy31]

2. From what I remember

The tempest was shorter than his other works, and I would guess with a name like Yale Shakespeare Collection they would tell you if it was abridged.

I hope this helps, it is just from what I remember I was a Julius Caesar and MacBeth man myself....I bet you could guess what character I was when my school put it on.

[bridgit]

3. 'the tempest' is considered his last...

and perhaps by that means shorter, more concise http://www-tech.mit.edu/Shakespeare/tempest

[Bossy Monkey]

4. See if any of this looks familiar

http://www.bartleby.com/70/index11.html
It's from the Oxford Complete Shakespeare. Granted, they don't say "unabridged," but if you think about it, that's what "complete" means. Seems like it would be comparatively short. Anyway, it's pretty short on scenes, compared to say "Romeo & Juliet."

Hope this helps.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

5. It looks like the same.

The lines are coming up very much similar indeed. Cool! Thank you!

[WritingIsMyReligion]

6. Thank you everybody for your help--I don't think it's abridged.

Yay! :evilgrin:

:hi:

[shugh514]

7. The shortest Shakespeare play is

"The Comedy of Errors" at 1,786 lines.
"The Tempest" has 2,275 lines.
"Hamlet" is the longest at 4,024 lines

from " The Essential Shakespeare Handbook" DK Publishing

[Arkham House]

8. The good old Yale Shakespeare...

...no--it's not abridged. I still have my set from college, and even though it is dated--some of the textual criticism was superceded as far back as the 20s--that just makes it kinda quaint...and *The Tempest* is a cool play, with some of Shakespeare's very greatest poetry...enjoy...