This text of The Tempest is from Volume I of the nine-volume1863 Cambridge edition of Shakespeare. The editors’ preface (e-text23041) and theother plays from this volume are each available as separate e-texts.

General Notes are in their original location at the end of the play,followed by the text-critical notes originally printed at the bottom ofeach page. All notes are hyperlinked in both directions. In dialogue,a link from a speaker’s name generally means that the note appliesto the entire line or group of lines.

Line numbers—shown in the right margin and used for allnotes—are from the original text. In prose passages the exact linecounts will depend on your browser settings, and will probably bedifferent from the displayed numbers. Stage directions were not includedin the line numbering.

Texts cited in the Notes are listed at the endof the e-text.