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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... play . While fully explicating its historical context , sources , and afterlife , the editors engage deeply with the play's ethical ambiguities . They reveal The Tempest as a canonical play that speaks powerfully to today's social ...
... play called The Tempest” (Chambers 2: 342). A second record, from the Chamber Account, includes the play among those performed at court in 1613 during the wedding celebrations of King James's daughter to a German prince, Frederick V ...
... play, a character called the Scrivener takes the stage and speaks to the audience on behalf of the author (remember that The Tempest features a “servant monster,” “a living drollery,” and a good deal of dancing): If there be never a ...
... play and especially the character of 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 ...
... play, and why did he write it when he did? One part of the answer has to do with current events. In the summer of 1609, an English ship, the Sea Venture, bound for the colony at Jamestown, Virginia, was separated from its companion ...
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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 |