Editing Tempest-Tost

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[[File:TempestTost.jpg|thumb|First edition]]

'''''Tempest-Tost''''', published in [[1951 in literature|1951]] by [[Clarke, Irwin & Company|Clarke Irwin]], is the first [[novel]] in ''[[The Salterton Trilogy]]'' by [[Canadians|Canadian]] novelist [[Robertson Davies]]. The other two novels are ''[[Leaven of Malice]]'' ([[1954 in literature|1954]]) and ''[[A Mixture of Frailties]]'' ([[1958 in literature|1958]]). The series was also published in one volume as ''The Salterton Trilogy'' in [[1986 in literature|1986]].

The trilogy revolves around the residents of the imaginary town of Salterton, [[Ontario]].

==Plot summary==
'''''Tempest-Tost''''' could be considered [[theatre-fiction]], which, as Graham Wolfe explains, refers to "novels and stories that engage in concrete and sustained ways with theatre as artistic practice and industry".<ref> {{cite book | last = Wolfe
 | first = Graham | title = Theatre-Fiction in Britain from Henry James to Doris Lessing: Writing in the Wings | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=jQedDwAAQBAJ&dq=theatre-fiction+in+Britain+Routledge&pg=PT2 | publisher = Routledge | year = 2020| page = 2| isbn = 9781000124361}}</ref> In the novel, an amateur theatrical group sets about mounting a production of [[Shakespeare]]'s ''[[The Tempest]]''.   Romantic young scholar and assistant director Solomon ("Solly") Bridgetower, womanizer Roger Tasset and repressed middle-aged math teacher Hector Mackilwraith vie for the rich, beautiful and indifferent leading lady Griselda Webster.   As the production moves forward, each man presses his suit with characteristic blind-spots as small rivalries and ambitions are pursued by Griselda's precocious sister Fredegonde (Freddy), the vain Professor Walter Vambrace, his socially awkward daughter Pearl Vambrace, and the mischievous musician Humphrey Cobbler.

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== References ==
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== External links ==
* {{iblist title|id=22354|title=Tempest-Tost}}

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[[Category:1951 Canadian novels]]
[[Category:Novels by Robertson Davies]]
[[Category:Novels set in Ontario]]
[[Category:Clarke, Irwin & Company books]]
[[Category:Theatre-fiction]]

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