Shakespeare's The Tempest app for iPhone and iPad

Shakespeares The Tempest for iPad is designed for social reading, authoring, and sharing, for all readers from students to professional scholars.

•Learn from the expert commentaries of the world’s leading Shakespeare scholars, artists and teachers.

•Enjoy a full-length audio performance from the noted company Actors From the London Stage. Play text scrolls as you listen. Additional audio takes provide alternative performances of key passages.

•Publish your own commentaries privately to the iPads of students, friends, or colleagues.

•Share your notes immediately to a Facebook discussion group.

•Create your own play text. Select key passages you like, annotate them, and share with friends, colleagues, and readers worldwide.

•Illustrations, podcasts and video from The Folger Shakespeare Library’s collection bring alive Renaissance English culture and theater.

•Customize your experience. Quiet when you need it, social when you want it.

From solitary reading to generative thinking in the company of others. From the classroom to the theater, Luminary’s The Tempest for iPad creates a dynamic experience to enhance our pleasure and understanding of Shakespeare’s extraordinary works.

The Tempest for iPad is a collaboration of renowned scholars from the US and Europe, along with Actors from the London Stage. The Tempest uses digital materials from master teachers and the archives of the Folger Shakespeare Library – the worlds premiere destination for the combined study, performance, preservation and teaching of Shakespeares works.

The Tempest was the first play printed in Shakespeare’s First Folio of 1623, thought to be inspired by European discoveries of the New World. Its hauntingly beautiful verse makes it among the most frequently performed and beloved of Shakespeare’s plays.

Get the app now and read in the company of others.