The Tempest: The New Oxford Shakespeare - Paperback

William Shakespeare was born in April 1564 in the town of Stratford-upon-Avon, on England's Avon River. When he was eighteen, he married Anne Hathaway. The couple had three children--an older daughter Susanna and twins, Judith and Hamnet. Hamnet, Shakespeare's only son, died in childhood. The bulk of Shakespeare's working life was spent in the theater world of London, where he established himself professionally by the early 1590s. He enjoyed success not only as a playwright and poet, but also as an actor and shareholder in an acting company. Although some think that sometime between 1610 and 1613 Shakespeare retired from the theater and returned home to Stratford, where he died in 1616, others believe that he may have continued to work in London until close to his death.

Lauren Working is a lecturer in Renaissance Studies at the University of York. Her research explores how English colonialism influenced taste and politics in seventeenth-century London. Her first book, The Making of an Imperial Polity: Civility and America in the Jacobean Metropolis (2020), jointly won the Royal Historical Society's Whitfield Prize in 2021. She has also published on topics including travel and transculturality, female interests in empire, and the colonial gaze in cavalier verse. Her work with museums has led to collaborative projects on shipwrecked porcelain and contemporary poetry, still life painting, and global networks at Oxford and the Inns of Court. She is a consultant for the London National Portrait Gallery and a BBC Radio 3 New Generation Thinker.

William Shakespeare Kim Gilchrist is Lecturer in English Literature at Cardiff University. He holds a Ph.D from Roehampton University (2018). Kim was co-organiser with Dr Amy Lidster of the 2019 'Changing Histories' conference at King's College London. He has been an invited speaker at the universities of Oxford, Southampton, and Würzberg, the Malone Society, and the Rose Playhouse. Kim's work explores popular culture, interactions between history and romance, and modes of performance beyond London's professional drama. He has published articles on Mucedorus and King Lear, and a monograph on the performance of Britain's imagined pre-Roman history. He is currently writing a monograph on Mucedorus. Rory Loughnane is Reader in Early Modern Studies at the University of Kent. He is the author or editor of ten books and has published widely on Shakespeare. For the New Oxford Shakespeare, he has edited more than ten of Shakespeare's plays. He is a Series Editor of Studies in Early Modern Authorship (Routledge) and Shakespeare and Text (Cambridge UP), and a General Editor of The Revels Plays series (Manchester UP) and the forthcoming Oxford Marlowe edition.