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The Tempest

William Shakespeare

First published 1623
Type Short Fiction
Length Novella

  • Assumed to have been composed sometime between late 1610 to mid-1611, and thus likely the last play written by Shakespeare alone.
  • First published in the First Folio of 1623. "The Tempest did not attract a significant amount of attention before the ban on the performance of plays in 1642, and only attained popularity after the Restoration, and then only in adapted versions." --Wikipedia

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
1623 Cover Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies Edward Blount; William and Isaac Jaggard Collection
1632 Cover Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies Robert Allot Collection
1663 Cover Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies Philip Chetwinde Collection
1664 Cover Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies Philip Chetwinde Collection
1685 Cover Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies Bentley, Brewster, Chiswell, and Herringman Collection
1798 Der Sturm / Hamlet Unger Collection
1903 The Works of Shakespeare R. G. Newbegin Collection
1904 The Works of Shakespeare Grant Richards Collection v1-1
1908 Shakespeare's Comedy of the Tempest Hodder & Stoughton Chapbook
1910 Elizabethan Drama: Volume I P. F. Collier & Son Anthology 397
1926 Cover The Tempest Doubleday, Page & Company Chapbook
November 1926 Cover The Tempest Heinemann Chapbook
November 1926 The Tempest Heinemann Chapbook
1951 Cover The Tempest Grabhorn Press Chapbook
1964 Cover The Tempest Signet Classic / New American Library Chapbook 35
1975 The Tempest André Sauret Chapbook
1984 Cover Shakespeare's Comedy of the Tempest Hodder & Stoughton Chapbook
1996 Cover Der Sturm: Zweisprachige Ausgabe dtv Collection |7
1996 Cover Der Sturm: Zweisprachige Ausgabe dtv Collection
April 2001 Cover Der Sturm ars vivendi Collection |7
April 2001 Cover Der Sturm ars vivendi Collection
October 2001 Cover The Little Big Book of Chills & Thrills Welcome Books Anthology 30
January 2011 Cover The Tempest Dover Publications Chapbook
2012 Cover Shakespeare's Comedy of the Tempest Calla Editions Chapbook 1
April 2012 Cover The Tempest Collector's Library Chapbook
April 2012 Cover The Tempest Dover Publications Chapbook
December 2015 Cover The Tempest Simon & Schuster Chapbook
November 2016 Cover The Tempest Penguin Books (US) Chapbook
June 2019 Cover The Tempest Macmillan UK Chapbook
November 2020 Cover The Complete Harvard Classics Moon Classics Omnibus |46.397