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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... nature afraid in his plays, like those that beget Tales, Tempests, and such like drolleries, to mix his head with other men's heels, let the concupiscence of jigs and dances reign as strong as it will amongst you. (Induction, ll. 130–35) ...
William Shakespeare J.F. Bernard, Paul Yachnin. of nature [and] a most gentle expresser of it”), and they offer the book to potential purchasers as a fitting remembrance of him; so perhaps they did mean their readers to regard the lead ...
... nature, as it does, or seems to do, in the storm. And it can also come from humankind, as when Antonio, frightened for his own life, curses the Boatswain and wishes him hanged. Prospero has a well-developed harsh side, which he keeps ...
... nature as on his “nobler reason” (5.1.23, 26; tLn 1973, 1976). His passion, we might say, awakens his reason. Because he is “kindlier moved,” Prospero is able to call on his “nobler reason” in order to assuage his “fury” (5.1.26, tLn ...
... nature of beasts and some others might be more fully 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 ...
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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 |