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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... storm and wrecked on the uninhabited Bermudas. For over a year, people in England had no word from the ship that had been carrying Virginia's governor-designate Thomas Gates and Admiral George Sommers as well as some 150 others ...
... storm or that it pleased God to be gracious unto us) there was not a passenger, gentleman, or other, after he began to stir and labor but was able to relieve his fellow and make good his course” (Appendix F, p. 201). In the event, the ...
... storm: SHIPMAStER. Boatswain! BOAtSWAIn. Here, master. What cheer? SHIPMAStER. Good. Speak to the mariners. Fall to it yarely or we run ourselves aground. Bestir! Bestir! (1.1.1–4, tLn 4–9) In the face of dire danger, the mariners work ...
... storm, puts the same wish more directly and rudely: “Hang, cur. Hang, you whoreson, insolent noisemaker!” (1.1.38, tLn 62). The Boatswain is abrupt enough in his turn, shouting at his social superiors to shut up and to get out of the ...
... storms, prepare a sumptuous dinner from thin air, organize a wedding masque “with a twink” (4.1.43, tLn 1698); there is music in the very air; and there is a powerful magician who can command the elements and THE TEMPEST 17.
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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 |