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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... human psychology but also as a clear-eyed philosophical thinker. From beginning to end, The Tempest explores the coupling of harshness and tenderness in human life. The play shows us how to live in the world as it is, especially by ...
... human. Prospero does not abandon his anger, but, as if in answer to Ariel, he nevertheless forgives his enemies. Indeed, his ability to forgive depends as much on his “sharply” passionate nature as on his “nobler reason” (5.1.23, 26 ...
... Humanity The Tempest is the culmination of Shakespeare's long-standing interest in the relationship between the human and the animal. Most often, he defines the human as qualitatively better than the animal. When Hamlet wants to express ...
... human; and it also means that all his characters have elements of both humanity and animality. The Tempest and Caliban represent the most radical phase in Shakespeare's thinking about humans and animals. Caliban is a “thing of darkness ...
... human arms in spite of Trinculo's working assumption that he is a fish with fins: What have we here—a man or a fish? Dead or alive? A fish. He smells like a fish ... A strange fish. Were I in England now, as once I was, and had but this ...
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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 |