‧An extensive overview of Shakespeare's life, world, and theater by the general editor of the Signet Classics Shakespeare series, Sylvan Barnet.

‧Special introduction to the play by the editor, Robert Langbaum, University of Virginia.

‧Sources from which Shakespeare derived The Tempest－selections from William Strachey, Sylvester Jourdain, Montaigne, and Ovid.

‧Dramatic criticism from the past and present：commentaries by samuel Taylor Coleridge, E.M.W. Tillyard, Lori Jerrell Leinenger, and Stephen Greenblatt.

‧A comprehensive stage and screen history of notable actors, directors, and productions of The Tempest, then and now.

‧text, notes, and commentaries printed in the clearest, mosst readable type.