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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... seem “cured and perfect of [its] limbs”; it is a carefully produced text, mostly error-free. While most of the stage directions are what we are used to seeing in Shakespeare's early texts—phrases such as “Enter Prospero and Miranda” or ...
... seems to have fired Shakespeare's imagination. The title of Strachey's first section is “A most dreadful Tempest ... their wracke on Bermuda; and the description of those islands” (see Appendix F, p. 196). Shakespeare read about how the ...
... seem to have precipitated, in this play, most of the major themes of Shakespeare's last years” (xxv). On the basis of when Shakespeare could have first read the letter that so sparked his imagination and when the play would have been ...
... seems no hope of saving the ship, they leave the stage to pray. At the moment the ship seems to be breaking up, we hear them taking leave of their absent families and of each other—“We split, we split! Farewell, my wife and children ...
... seems to want us to feel Miranda's wonder and also to grasp the soundness of Prospero's judgment of the men who stand together on the stage. We might say that learning to think and feel both harshly and tenderly about others is the ...
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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 |