The TempestBroadview Press, 09.02.2021 - 228 Seiten The world that William Shakespeare creates in The Tempest has many features that make it recognizably like our own. There are bad, self-seeking people; brothers fall out with brothers; people who have power are reluctant to give it up; people fall in love; children love their fathers but want to break free. But there is also a fairy-spirit, music in the very air of the island, and a powerful magician who can command the elements and even, he tells us, bring the dead back to life. Combining reality and magic, Shakespeare creates an uncanny but morally coherent world. This edition features interleaved materials that expand upon allusions in the play and explore elements of its stagecraft. Appendices offer excerpts from Shakespeare’s key sources and inspirations, along with historical materials on exploration and colonialism. |
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... Prospero as a memento of the playwright and a reflection on the “rough magic” of theater. But, of course, we do not know how they expected the purchasers of the volume to regard the plays, only that they expected that the book would ...
... Prospero—to manage a recalcitrant element among the men and even put down several mutinies. One of the mutineers argued fascinatingly that “it was no breach of honesty, conscience, nor religion to decline from the obedience of the ...
... Prospero's villainous brother Antonio, also terrified of the storm, puts the same wish more directly and rudely: “Hang, cur. Hang, you whoreson, insolent noisemaker!” (1.1.38, tLn 62). The Boatswain is abrupt enough in his turn ...
... Prospero begins to tell his story to his daughter Miranda in the second scene. Twelve years before the action of the play, Antonio handed his brother Prospero and Prospero's three-year-old daughter Miranda over to a “treacherous army ...
... Prospero's harsh response to the wickedness of people? How can we hold two so diametrically opposed ideas about “mankind” in our minds? Shakespeare seems to want us to feel Miranda's wonder and also to grasp the soundness of Prospero's ...
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Shakespeares Life | 45 |
Shakespeares Theater | 51 |
A Brief Chronology | 57 |
A Note on the Text | 61 |
The Tempest | 65 |
From Aristotle Politics fourth century BCE | 163 |
From Ovid Metamorphoses 8 CE | 168 |
From Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda The Second Democrate or The Just Causes of the War against the Indians 1547 | 170 |
From Bartolomé de las Casas A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies 1552 | 174 |
From Michel de Montaigne Of the Cannibals 157880 | 181 |
From William Strachey A True Reportory of the Wracke 1610 | 196 |
From John Dryden and William Davenant The Tempest or The Enchanted Island 1670 | 205 |
Works Cited and Select Bibliography | 217 |