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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... action as if they were bits of narrative instead of instructions for actors: “Enter certain reapers, properly habited,” one says, “they join with the nymphs in a graceful dance, towards the end whereof PROSPERO starts suddenly and ...
... action-packed. There are flashes of lightning, rolling thunder, and urgent shouts of distress. People are running about, either in sheer panic or in rapid, orchestrated labor. After the opening stage direction, “A tempestuous noise of ...
... action and angry exchange is, however, also one that features moments of poignant fellow feeling. The mariners work together yarely and cheerly. Once there seems no hope of saving the ship, they leave the stage to pray. At the moment ...
... action of the play, Antonio handed his brother Prospero and Prospero's three-year-old daughter Miranda over to a “treacherous army,” a small commando force directed by the Neapolitan counselor Gonzalo. Father and child were cast adrift ...
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Inhalt
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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 |