To edit or not to edit If I were to direct William Shakespeare's The Tempest I would not change the location of Prospero's speech to the end. ... If I ever decided to direct this play I would really try to keep it, as Shakespeare would want the play to be. ... These marginal issues aside, The Tempest is the fourth, final, and the finest of Shakespeare's great and/or late romances. Along with Pericles, Cymbeline, and The Winter's Tale, The Tempest belongs to the genre of Elizabethan romance plays. ... The play challenges our senses and is self-consciously a performance o...

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