The TempestPenguin UK, 29.10.2015 - 240 Seiten 'The magic in The Tempest is real ... It contains a great many unanswered questions' Margaret Atwood |
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... character, Falstaff, inhabits the history plays and Henry V ends with a marriage, while Henry VI, Part III, Richard II and Richard III culminate in the tragic deaths of their protagonists. Although in performance Shakespeare's characters ...
... characters – Romeo and Juliet, Falstaff, Shylock and Hamlet – have acquired mythic status. He is valued for his humanity, his psychological insight, his wit and humour, his lyricism, his mastery of language, his ability to excite ...
... characters on journeys to faraway places, or engage them in actions that present possibilities unimaginable at home. Typical are plays like Thomas Heywood's The Four Prentices of London (c. 1600), whose heroes' adventures take them from ...
... symmetries that wrap around its characters. Not only is it haunted by 'noises' and 'sweet airs' (III.2.136–7), its music is more insistent and integral to the action than in any other Shakespearian drama. Music is constantly present.
... characters' minds, provoking them to feelings of both yearning and despair. Caliban's dream, which tantalizes him with riches and leaves him weeping when they vanish at his awakening (III.2.140–44), encapsulates this mood of frustrated ...